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Example sentences for "looking after"

  • Disconcerted by a meeting so strange and so ill timed, she involuntarily stood still, without any other power than that of looking after him.

  • That was Per Olsen himself," said Lasse, looking after him.

  • Well, well, it doesn't become us to find fault with our betters; we have enough to do in looking after ourselves.

  • And I stood, looking after her as she went: saying to myself: There goes my last hope.

  • And I stood, looking after him in a stupor, like one struck by a bolt from heaven, in the form of his appalling news.

  • And when I had gone a little way, I looked back, and saw her still standing, looking after me, with her two hands clasped behind her head, as motionless as a tree.

  • He knew, as he went away, that she lingered in the door, looking after him in painful uncertainty, and he almost expected to hear himself called back and begged to be her messenger.

  • Pierrette, looking after the curĂ© as he leisurely walked down the road, repeating his rosary as he went along.

  • I am Miss O'Mahony, looking after myself, whereas other young ladies have to be watched.

  • But he might still succeed in looking after Miss O'Mahony, and rescuing the singer from the lord.

  • His hounds were his children, and he could have taught no wife to assist him in looking after them, with the constant attention and tender care which was given to them by Barney Smith, his huntsman.

  • And that's just one of those things you never will understand," muttered Hector, looking after him.

  • He's off to cable to Quibble," he muttered, looking after him.

  • I think he would have told me, Charles, but for your being present," cried my uncle, looking after him.

  • I told him about the Sunday incident, when Detective Arkwright passed the door of Serjeant Stillingfar, and my momentary fear that he might be looking after Tom.

  • Yes; but I think he has been put upon this beat in the ordinary way of things, not that he is looking after anyone in particular.

  • And Esther was equally sorry that anyone but herself should have the looking after of that dear, kind soul.

  • I tell you the responsibility I of looking after a hinfant is that awful nowadays that I don't care to undertake it for less.

  • She began once more to think that he was not ill-looking after all.

  • But many years had gone by since Athena had even made a pretence of looking after Richard.

  • And to keep him with her while her friend was doubtless engaged in doing what should have been her own job--that is, in looking after Richard.

  • But his chief agent he knew had been a hard man and a careless one; and he had always loathed the trouble of looking after him.

  • I am the last man in the world who ought to be looking after him; I know that as well as anybody," he said, with emphasis.

  • And Violet needed a deal of looking after.

  • He thought that she was tired of looking after Granville, when in reality she was only bored.

  • But the hard fact was that Granville and all his furniture required a great deal of looking after.

  • Find out exactly where he is, who is looking after him.

  • Now she has a little English girl with her, and a whole family she's looking after.

  • He is very fond of this place, and, what I never expected, he has become intensely interested in looking after it.

  • Liosha," I remarked judiciously, "is also a young woman capable of looking after herself.

  • He followed her to the doorway, and stood in the brilliant sunshine, looking after her, as she sped away with never a backward glance, the gold of the sunlight upon her and the morning wind ruffling her hair.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking 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:
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