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Example sentences for "looked after"

  • Daly, as he looked after him; "the old miser that goes there has more power over our country and its gentry than ever a feudal chief wielded in the days of vassalage.

  • The way everything's looked after--you never see it abroad!

  • The two young people, both on their feet now, looked after him.

  • But though she was no longer his companion, he still had a habit of expecting her confidences; and he looked after her, moving away from him to a window, with surprised concern.

  • Do you think that Ephraim would have looked after salvation, had not God first confounded him with the guilt of the sins of his youth?

  • I was only going to say that Mr. Pinckney must have lots to do instead of wasting his time looking after strangers, and if he hadn't I don't want to be looked after.

  • He looked after my unhappy wife till she died in London; he took charge of you and brought you up like a son.

  • He looked after it for twenty years, and then it was taken by a gentleman who didn't care for murders or ghosts.

  • Kerry attended principally to the garden and the books; looked after Jenny, whom he was always scolding, and passed his leisure time in fishing in the Lax.

  • I haven't any money on my person, but I can always get it, and I will see that you are properly looked after.

  • Each significant legislator, if he yielded his vote or his influence, must be looked after.

  • You and I are practical men--I know that if any favors are extended some of those who help to bring them about must be looked after.

  • She will take the note when I am not in sight," thought Otto, as he looked after her.

  • Lina, who was standing holding Lisbeth by the hand at the dressing-room door, looked after her in surprise.

  • Martin shook his head as he looked after her, and as soon as he had taken Elinor to the stables betook himself to the park to inform Otto that the Fraeulein had returned.

  • Helena Richie, bewildered, her eyes full of tears, looked after him in dismay.

  • Listen to me: you are going to be looked after,--do you hear me?

  • Robert Ferguson, on his door-step, looked after them, his face falling abruptly into stern lines.

  • He will be looked after until he has good crops.

  • As they are an honest race, white children are not only well looked after, but are taught good principles also.

  • Dark graystone figures largely in building, and streets are good and well looked after.

  • The supplies he referred to were kept from native officials and looked after by American representatives.

  • The general health is to be looked after, and remedies directed especially toward the nervous system to be employed.

  • The wearing apparel should be looked after--boiled, baked, or sulphur-fumigated.

  • The general health is to be looked after, and the patient placed under good hygienic conditions.

  • A woman must be looked after, and, if it comes to that, I say, give me a mother.

  • The "old lady" of course had to be looked after as long as she lived.

  • Only ill enough to convince me that the need of avoiding a northern winter was not a fallacy, and likewise to make Tibbie insist on coming here for fear Maister Colin should not be looked after.

  • Is he come to look after you or to be looked after!

  • And the way you've looked after Jerry's land for him.

  • She wants to be looked after herself, and you ought to be grateful to me for relieving you of the job.

  • Just because I looked after him at night?

  • Relatives were not lacking in this large clan and its branches, and the children were ‘looked after’ by them.

  • Only from the point of view of the war, they ought to be looked after, but when one remembers that they are men, every one of them with somebody who cares for them, it is dreadful.

  • A Serbian officer on board, or rather a Montenegrin, looked after us like a father.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looked after" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    denying ordinance; generally adequate; kindest regards; looked about; looked after; looked anxiously; looked around; looked back; looked forward; looked from; looked full; looked hard; looked kind; looked like; looked more; looked over; looked upon; looked very; mean temperature; morrow will; opium smoking; seafaring life; sound body; walk over; well that; whole week