| 单词 | look after |
| 例句 | Her days were spent doing housework, cooking, and caring for her family, but instead of her parents and siblings, she now looked after her husband and soon their children. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “No. You’re strong, Lanesha. Who got us ready for the storm? Who fixed this chicken? Who looked after me when I remained in bed? Who tried to reach 911? Who tried to help?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z But she agreed it made sense for me to come since this is Minerva’s last year at Inmaculada Concepcion, and so I would have family here to look after me my first year. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not that we ever had anyone break in. We look after each other in this neighborhood." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And if he didn’t toughen up, what would happen to him when there was no Trotter to look after him? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Not only did they have a lot of walking to do the next day, she had the added burden of looking after little Deedee. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I moved in under the pretext that I was the houseboy or caretaker who would look after the place until my master took possession. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I would become the family’s quiet and not-too-bright cousin from Alsace, whose parents have been bombed out and who has come here to be looked after and help with the farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Papa had kissed Vonetta and Fern and told me to look after my sisters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She was so sick that Old Rit heard about it, and went to Edward Brodas and asked him to take Minty away from Cook’s, to let her come home where Rit could look after her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Ferula looked after her as obsessively as if she had been an invalid. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Koffi had worked in the Night Zoo for eleven years—looking after its beasts in every condition, from torrid rainfall to scorching sunshine—but she’d never felt a heat quite like this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He’s not panicking, and it reminds me of how settled my parents looked after they set me up for freedom. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She had spent the last ten years with Mrs. Rogers, looking after her, talking to her, driving her around. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Because he is so young, everyone at the camp looks after Enrique. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the years that he had looked after me from Pollsmoor through Victor Verster, we had never discussed politics, but our bond was an unspoken one and I would miss his soothing presence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With our mother working so much, and our grandparents obviously slowing in energy, my sisters and I were supposed to look after one another. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z On our later trips, we’d sleep in a sumptuous bedroom suite on the ground floor of the palace, looked after by liveried footmen and ladies-in-waiting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We were looked after by the older brother, who must have been warned to restrain himself, for he never touched us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered how he had looked after his little brother, Kuol. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, “I also look after those who don’t.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Shortly before I was planning to leave, I thanked one elderly fellow for having looked after me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As is our custom, the women looked after the children on one side of the field, while the men and boys huddled closely on the other, smoking cigarettes and shouting insults at the officials. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They never complained and they pulled their weight and they looked after Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They kept lists of the names of Denmark’s followers, of the places where ammunition was kept, places where there were horses, and the names of slaves who looked after horses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure he’ll look after her. Now, what about some new books?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z No one in the Tallis household was looking after the Quincey twins, and to conceal her guilt she said brightly, “We’ll never find anything with the room in this state.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "Well, go tend to something else. The nurses are here to look after her. She doesn't need additional fawning." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And anyway, I’ve done my share of looking after donors brought up in every kind of place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then don’t do anything. Come here and give me a kind kiss, and God will look after us both.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa had left me to look after things while he was gone, and I wasn’t about to let two mad bulls tear up everything we had. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Solely to look after the Divinos and keep them from heaping misery on the other people types and giving them a pinch from time to time? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z And sure enough, as Bear moved through the crowd, I observed the one-eyed man step out into the street and look after him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I am still praying but what I am seeing is Moira’s feet, the way they looked after they’d brought her back. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z We looked after each other’s babies, went on group outings to the zoo, and bought bulk tickets for Disney on Ice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “And how could they look after a baby, anyway? All those colleges are full of old men. They wouldn’t know what to do.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I think if you don’t have parents who look after you, then you can call yourself whatever you want.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z ‘Well, you do want looking after and no mistake: your party might be on a holiday!’ said Butterbur. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The people look after them and try not to hurt them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A lot of people, seeing that word forest in the title, assume it has something to do with looking after trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z After we tied up and Hamil-ton advanced the marina operator some cash to look after things, we caught a cab to the Chelsea Hotel. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Now stop. You go back to Ormaie and look after Verity.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I was looked after by a male nurse named Rojas, a heavyset man with a round face, who always wore a dirty blue smock and was endowed with enormous kindness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I look after her. She gone be alright.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But there was her promise to Abuelito, and the twins to look after, and also the unbearable notion of spending her days in Henry’s house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "No. They know how to look after themselves." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z So handsome that, even though he wasn’t sixteen years old yet, women turned to look after him with a sigh when he walked down the street. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma said, “All right, then, I want you to run on over there and ax if it be all right for her to look after you whilst we’s at the meeting.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z On top of that, there were the cows to milk, Little Arliss to look after, clothes to wash, wood to cut, and old Jumper to worry with. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Every once in a while, Manman would wake up to look after the child when the mother was so tired that she no longer heard her son’s cries. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I was given the job to look after the camp. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Jane takes me off into a corner backstage, secluded behind the set, and says, "You really did all that? You looked after him in Little League?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Even though looking after them would have been nothing new, I kissed him and said, “I will, Papa.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And I said to him, ‘Brother Tiger, you go for a swim, I’ll look after your balls for you.’ American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I was supposed to look after Vonetta and Fern, not put them in danger. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “A sister’s coming up from North Carolina to look after her. I expect she wants to get aholt of Della’s house.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It reawakened her to people and things, and she decided to hold on to her stake, even though she was young and small and had nobody to look after her anymore. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "Brett's rather cut up. But she loves looking after people. That's how we came to go off together. She was looking after me." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Mister Johnny asked me to look after her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “It is from my younger brother. He lives in Delhi, and he will take me in. He says he needs someone to look after his children and help with the housework.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “I can look after myself and my children,” she said, slightly emphasising the “myself’ and “my children” so that we might understand, “but not my in-laws as well.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When Jeer could no longer work she looked after babies when their mothers were in the fields. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They were tingling terribly: “You'll have to look after him as well if you want to keep me here tied up like a giant sausage roll.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “They all over town. All the babies I done looked after.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And if someone decided to turn her into a bird, there would be no one to look after her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bixby said, “Elijah, you tell your ma anytime she need me to look after her baby, she don’t even got to ax.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z For a long time she looked after the disappearing bird. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, yes, I’ve thought about that. Perhaps the children are little cherubs, looking after withered men like me.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Though boys were put into their own groups with the older ones in charge, Sudanese elders, following our traditions, decided the girls needed to be looked after by adults. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally a man turned and looked after her and then nervously went about his business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Cathy looked after him, and her eyebrows drew down in a scowl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She said her father, my grandfather, Kirby, and Malloy were pretty much best friends, which is why she trusted him to look after me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Then she caught sight of me and took hold of my arm again and again, and implored me to look after Franz out there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘No, I forbid you, Johnny. You’re going to stay right here and help Cilia and me look after this house.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain squatted there looking after her with his hand out. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In Liberia, a neighbor would always look after her kids if she needed to leave them to run an errand or visit a friend. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z If it was not a mothers place to look after children, whose on earth was it? The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z There was only the matter of his properties, looking after them, and of course the dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z ‘He stands a fair chance of being spitted for an Orc, or of being roasted by the Yellow Face. But I fancy he’ll look after himself.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z One morning one of the boys who looked after the plants saw that a great hole had been torn through the fence of thorns. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Look, Alex, you okay? You looking after your sisters okay? You want to send them to us until Luis or Isabella gets back?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She was nearly grown and would help look after them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was amazing how much better Liam looked after only a few hours; his face was animated with a kind of energy I hadn’t seen...well, ever. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The year before he was looked after by a university student named Abby, a slim, freckled girl who read books without pictures on their covers, and refused to prepare any food for Eliot containing meat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z And I said, “No. I can’t come inside. Will you look after Toby for me?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Morosina had stayed on the island to look after the dogs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The children in their different dormitories were woken at half-past seven by the nurses who looked after them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “And I shall look after mine, “ Grandfather vowed. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because you have six children and a useless husband to look after. I want to help.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was grateful to her for not wanting to look after him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come back,” said Maxim sharply, “we don’t want to go that way. The fool of a dog must look after himself.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘You’re supposed to be looking after me, because I hurt myself.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I’m eleven and I can easily look after my brothers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She guessed this was part of her duties in “looking after” Brandon. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "There aren't any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Is that how you look after your little brother? Teaching him how to creep into strange houses?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It looked just the way a birchbark canoe looks after some big boys are finished playing with it. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z He told me he would look after the house, that maybe we might come back someday. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I can help to make the ditch a bit more comfortable, and probably Fiver will be able to do with someone else to help to look after Hazel.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood looking after the basket inside the kitchen door. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “But what if it does come to an end? Who will look after Jesse James? Who will feed Bunny?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Why would anyone bother looking after them?” said Ron, after yet another hour of poking shredded lettuce down the flobberworms’ slimy throats. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I remembered again that Mother had told me to look after Father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And you are allowed to bring with you either one or two members of your own family to look after you and to ensure that you don’t get into mischief. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “I ain’t done nothing but feed that old woman good food and look after her!” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I looked after matters for the regent, including his herd and his relations with other chiefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Who would look after her when we were gone and the boys were married with families of their own? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “And in all your long experience of the priory, did you ever know them to look after an infant?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She said that was the reason the rest of the men left him at home to sort of look after the womenfolks and kids while they were gone on the cow drive. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z As much of a screwup as I was becoming, I still tried hard to look after her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He refilled Hagrid’s mug and his own, and questioned him about the creatures that lived in the forest these days and how Hagrid was able to look after them all. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Bod said, “The lady who’s looking after me. She makes horrible food. Hard-boiled egg soup and things.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “And thanks to you two for looking after your mate,” Coach M said to Joey and Seanie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I can look after myself; but first the bloom must come back.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He lived his life in defiance of that very prospect, assiduously looking after our car, paying the bills on time, never discussing his advancing multiple sclerosis nor missing a day of work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If Hyzenthlay had had a second litter she would by this time have left them to look after themselves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Make sure you tell whoever’s looking after him tonight to rub his belly. It seems to help. And to change the dressing on his blisters. One of them is oozy.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t need you to look after me. You can’t even look after yourself.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Why are you so concerned about that young scamp of a slave boy? He should have been looking after you! And you couldn’t help it if that nasty ungrateful beast ran away!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z More often than not, he took Justice with him, as he liked me to remain in Mqhekezweni to look after his affairs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa had left me to look after things. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Some American ambulance units were to be sent down and this hospital would look after them and any other Americans on service in Italy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “I—I spec I like looking after the kids best,” she whispers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He assures his mother he’s doing well, and he has Dr. Gachet to look after him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Let me in because I’m looking after you and t-t-two of you are women.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Chou and I are to help look after the children, the garden, and various other chores while Kim fishes and collects wood with the father. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked after Miss Susan’s baby and helped with the housework, too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go!” she said, and I took off to look after my cows. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z She misses Pa so much, misses his protection and the way he looks after her and worries about her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra nodded eagerly, and said, “And she’s really going to...look after me?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z His mother looked after him for a moment and then went quietly back to her work. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull myself from the ground and look after them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z We were looked after by an amakhankatha, or guardian, who explained the rules we must follow if we were to enter manhood properly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "This is jail. Home is where you're looked after by people who love you." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She says Malachy and I have to take turns looking after Alphie, taking him out in the pram for a bit of fresh air. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “We can’t do anything. Although we could perhaps stop Prosper from jumping into the lagoon. It’s just not good enough leaving a bunch of children to look after themselves.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Joe got too weak to look after things and took to his bed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Well, I hope you’re happy. There was no one here to cook or look after the boys. And meanwhile, la Negra had the baby. Now say goodbye to these people and get inside.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “For the sisters. I used to clean and look after the chickens and the goats.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Bigwig, rejected on the grounds that he might quarrel in strange company, was inclined to be sulky at first, but came round when he remembered that he could go on looking after Kehaar. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "We wouldn't be in this mess if you'd looked after the garden." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Why wouldn’t Pa let me look after him?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She looked after his dark figure in the buggy as he drove away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And I said, “Can you look after Toby for me?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And she was so fresh and pretty that people walking turned and looked after her when she had passed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The banning and harassment of my wife greatly troubled me: I could not look after her and the children, and the state was making it difficult for her to look after herself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “His job’s to look after Boots, right? So let’s pretend he’s escaped!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “And tell Osh the garden can look after itself for a little while.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It makes trouble and is born and then you look after it and get fond of it maybe. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “God looks after fools and drunks,” he said with a big grin that showed off his gold front tooth, “and I guess he’ll look after you too, Sonny Hickam.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He left the living to look after the dead, sent Bronn to take charge of his captive knight, and went alone in search of his father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Just...we’re just...looking after her. But why did the people in the boat turn away when they got close, if they can’t see the island?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I’ll look after your mama. She’d want you in school,” Grandma said as she fixed me a big plate of fried eggs. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z You could throw stones at a dog, but a boy...Why hadn't he stayed with Silvertongue, who knew more about looking after young people? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Was Noodles looking after him, making sure the swelling was going down, and keeping that sprained wrist stable? When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Before I left, she told me to look after you. You’ll need someone to watch your back for you.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Chervil looked after the flying gull and then turned to Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked after the plumbing and all the electrical gadgets in the house. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, after she was gone, I looked after her like a lost puppy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Old Dan, with a bewildered look on his face, stood for a moment looking after her. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They kept the fires going, looked after the animals, milked the cows, fed and watered the livestock. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked after the girls, and I took care of my responsibilities at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He always had that look after a fight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She remembered an open field of lemongrass, a starry night sky, and a beast, larger and more terrible than any creature she’d looked after in the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I was no more than five when I became a herd-boy, looking after sheep and calves in the fields. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We moved house, put it about she was ill, and my mother looked after her, and tried to keep her calm and happy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They had a half-dozen properties to look after, he reminded her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “I shall look after your friend directly,” he said. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z ‘Ah, but we shall be looking into things,' he said, 'I shall see about getting you a friend, as well as someone to look after us in this house. Something is soon to be done.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “She’s got her baby now and a man to look after her and the baby.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the small apartment was a third-floor walkup, its proximity to the nursing school enabled Regina to look after her children while attending classes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But how can a man look after anyone in the field! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In jail, Amma looked after me, and after that, Rani did. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He was sixty years old, with a wife and nine children to look after. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It was easy to see he needed looking after, but what did she need that an old man could give when she already had a beau her own age who was anxious to marry her? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “So you can look after her,” Mom reasoned, like this was a huge honor. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Here the clan looked after its own; nobody and everybody was responsible for them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z While parents were away at work, their youngest children were looked after in church-sponsored daycare centers and their older children were busy learning at school. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "Thank you, Allah, for looking after our children." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “It’s crazy how good you look after having”—I did a quick count—“eleven munchkins.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “And I say yes. Well now, who do you think is looking after the twins? I wouldn’t trust a heathen from here to omega—but a Presbyterian—he learned everything I told him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And then I thought I would need someone to look after Toby when I went to London because I couldn’t take him with me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When a woman fell ill, Klanswomen looked after her children and brought covered dishes for the family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Come and hug on my knees so hard then off he shoots to look after something else. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There were so many details to look after. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “And this is how they look after they’ve been polished a bit.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Cooper will look after you better than me, honest. And I’ll phone up and talk to you tomorrow.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Can there be anything more important than looking after one’s aging mother? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His brothers and sisters, whom he had laughed with and played with and looked after.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some more conventional pets, too: Tana, a beautiful white and lemon cocker spaniel who was given to me, and Hobo, a springer spaniel I looked after for a friend. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Hornet looked after them anxiously as they crept along the dark corridor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His employer was well pleased with his work, he would be well looked after and I had no cause for his anxiety. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z "Someone's got to look after our folks," I replied. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I swallow, embarrassed by the question, “... looked after by someone else?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z With Little Arliss to look after, I sure didn’t mean to drop off to sleep. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ay, what a night,” my father shrugged as he looked after the men who had slunk away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, he was still too young to look after himself. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The policewoman who was looking after him put an arm round him. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tom, do you think you could look after the ranch if your mother and I took a little trip?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Heminges looked after him, rubbing his forehead as though it pained him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Did I hear the headmaster leaving? Am I allowed to look after my patients now?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “A girl’s got to look after her interests if she’s going to get ahead in this country,” she explained. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I admired Arkle very much for looking after his frog so well. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are a beautiful young woman. You will do amazing things. Please just make sure you look after my daughter.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But on this expedition he had been cast in the role of invincible guide, there to look after me and the other clients; we had been specifically indoctrinated not to question our guides’ judgment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I had to look after the house, so I didn’t follow. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He still thought it was quite ridiculous to look after a prisoner's pets. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Since Big Ma counted on me to look after my sisters, my bedtime began to shift and slide past nine. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Mrs Spring looked after me and cooked my meals. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z There was an allotment, which nobody looked after, and nettles grew, waist-high. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “She was being looked after by the nuns at Godstow, so she must be someone important.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Standing there with rage in his heart, looking after Jasper, Ged swore to himself to outdo his rival, and not in some mere illusion-match but in a test of power. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z My mother and my father’s youngest wife, Nodayimani, who had come to stay with us, were looking after him, and late that night he called for Nodayimani. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s ill. We got swept down in the flood and we been trying to look after her. But...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Excellent nosh, Petunia. It’s normally just a fry-up for me of an evening, with twelve dogs to look after....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Solid, monumental like his grandfathers, but with a joie de vivre and an irresistible good humor that they did not have, Aureliano Segundo scarcely had time to look after his animals. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I am not prepared to look after them again!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “We are together now, so I will look after you!” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z All this while, I thought I’d looked after you, but now I see it was often the opposite. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I forgot that English people rather turn up their noses at governesses and don’t treat them as we do,” said Meg, looking after the retreating figure with an annoyed expression. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z And I couldn’t walk properly for a month, do you remember, and your father had to look after you. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Thank God I had my teammates there to look after me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Before Salva had begun going to school, he had helped look after the entire herd, and his younger brother as well. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Xhalal Bushi had managed to get his wife and children to Macedonia before the fighting, but he and his brother had gone back to Kacanik to look after their homes and stores. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Apparently, the Underworld king and queen thought “looking after” someone meant giving him a broom and having him sweep up their messes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When they were near enough for Malcolm not to have to shout, he said, “We got a baby to look after. We had to go in here because she was freezing.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I know somebody real good. She known for her cooking and she look after you kids too. She even got her own car to drive out to you house.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z With Czerny’s word-of-mouth advertising, it wasn’t long before I had a gaggle of three or four children to look after. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Did they think he couldn’t look after himself? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Bacigalupi’s garbage wagon went by, and Martin looked after it spitefully. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The old grannies my mom hired to look after me while she was at work? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “In case I get too drunk to look after you,” he says. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Just about that time, a young man called Marc Cusano got a job looking after the chimps. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She left her children behind, telling them not to wander away but to stay within sight of Leopard, who would look after them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He turned and looked after it, and on the slope he saw old Samuel against the sky, his white hair shining with starlight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It would look after her soul, leaving supplies on her grave. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, at three and four, did we have tags put on our arms to be sent by train alone from Long Beach, California, to Stamps, Arkansas, with only the porter to look after us? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "You will stay here with me," she said, "and I will look after you." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Don’t you think Mami and Papi would want you to be safe, at a convent with holy sisters looking after you?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z You could say that rain-forest viruses are extremely good at looking after their own interests. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishtar had asked me to look after her, so I joined Belet. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I would have all I could do to look after myself. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I darted through the trees to the road, and looked after them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Most housewives, madam,” he said acidly, “would not bother with herbal trifles in their garden when there are mouths to feed and neighbors to look after. Why not grow something more substantial?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z This man had a child called Ntshetsanyana, who was looked after by a servant girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She also knew that, because of his having just the one hand, he needed special looking after. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I needed time to say goodbye, and now I must look after myself and my niece. Thank you.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Bod said, “It’s okay. Miss Lupescu looked after me. I was never in any danger.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z All the time, Rabscuttle looked after El-ahrairah, brought him fresh dock leaves and kept the flies from his wounds until they healed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his second wife, June, live in Wyckoff, a New Jersey suburb where he pampers fig trees and dutifully looks after a bird feeder shaped like the Parthenon. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “They will know that someone is looking after them. And the rest is up to God.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Then he would only have one person to look after instead of two. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I would be remiss in my duty, I fear, if I did not look after your spiritual welfare.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She also looked after C.P.’s elderly mother, who lived with them in their tiny house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Once she arrived, I’d been too busy taking care of myself to look after her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of the refugees were being looked after in a huge Belgian-owned building close to the lake shore. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s what her mother had done her whole life, cater to some man instead of looking after herself. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Boys and girls like you who are traveling alone. Don’t be afraid. We’ll look after you.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “He just seems really sad, and there’s kind of no one there to look after him. I mean, isn’t there any other family?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z If it was not a mother’s place to look after children, whose on earth was it? The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z If you’re one of them, I can understand how you might get resentful—about my bedsit, my car, above all, the way I get to pick and choose who I look after. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe that was why Miss Carmichael was at the priory, to see if they were looking after Lyra properly so she could tell her mother....Blimey.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Hofstede argued, for example, that cultures can be usefully distinguished according to how much they expect individuals to look after themselves. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "Eh, he looked after me, too," I say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “Your parents . . .” she ventures, “didn’t look after you?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The next morning, we sailed for England and soon I was back in the old family house in Kent, but this time with only my grandmother to look after me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Dad’d been keeping it till I was mature enough to look after it myself. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z ‘But you know the Gaffer is close at hand, and he will be very well looked after by Widow Rumble.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Please look after me today, Mom, one last time, because I know I’m not already dead like Rufus thinks we are, and I would like to have my life-changing day. See you later.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She already has enough to do taking care of the bedpan routine and having to look after me day after day. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z One of the Special Branch officers who looked after us was Lieutenant Swanepoel, a burly, red-faced fellow who was convinced we were always putting one over on him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What was not traditional was that this year the softest-hearted child had been assigned to look after them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His wife has to look after the farm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you know what happened, so they don’t want me down there any more. They told me I could look after the ranch out here. Like you.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And while Papa was gone, it was up to me to look after it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was my fault, Little Sister. I didn’t look after you properly. The jaguar never would have attacked you if I had watched over you as I was supposed to.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “She seemed frightfully old to me. I suppose she couldn’t have been more than forty. Susanne, of course, used to look after my clothes and maid me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The surviving twin went to look after the baby and fell in love with her sister’s husband. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I point to it and say, “’You better get that looked after.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “I hope she’s all right now. I hope someone’s looking after her.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The team was growing rapidly, with experienced people recruited to look after the finances and handle advance planning on events. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I would later be awarded the honor of looking after the legal concerns of Barney the Dinosaur. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was amazed at how different she looked after just a few days with the Hunters. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Mister Johnny gone be home tonight and I told him I’d look after you. What’s he gone think if he find you laid up in that old nasty night-thing you got on?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “You know he’s been looking after my business since I was knee-high, so I just went to town and explained it to him. I simply asked him for advice.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “We look after it in a minute,” I say in that reassuring voice. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The dog looked after his master for a second and then bent his head to the ground, snuffling something. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t go. You can’t go and leave your mother thisaway. She need a woman, Florence, to help look after her. What she going to do here, all alone with me?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z "Thank goodness we have you to look after us, madam. Thank your husband for this food. Tell him to come to the temple tomorrow for a special blessing. Come along, my boy." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He asked a bit about the sorta creatures I look after ... so I told him... an’ I said what I’d always really wanted was a dragon ... an’ then ... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z We are also looking after chimpanzee orphans in Burundi, in Uganda, and, most recently, in Tanzania. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Now that my father was gone, it was not easy to look after Ramo, who was always into some mischief. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You yourself—you were a young girl at the time—did you have no one to superintend your studies or to look after you?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The women got together the sweets and the men looked after the meats. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z There was much to be done there, he said, and they would be looked after well. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “No ma’am, after the thanks they’ve given us for looking after ’em, nobody in Maycomb feels much inclined to help ’em when they get in trouble now. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I looked after the Dudley family for too long, over six years. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I wanted to walk out of the gates of Victor Verster and be able to thank those who looked after me and greet the people of Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A person who has responsibility for or looks after something,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I walked back into the living room, where Mama stood alone, looking after the men. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “Please look after him while Roberto and I prepare the lunches.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Because . . . . because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z There were half a dozen groves within the area looked after by this group. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Didi told her boys that they were old enough to look after themselves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Like I had to be a big boy all of a sudden because now I had a baby sister to look after. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I was gettin’ on in years already and had this park to look after. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Not a soldier, but someone who needs to be looked after. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She had enough children to look after without having to bother about a farm as well. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood in the door, looking after me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I don’t think this would qualify as looking after if she’s drunk in the bathtub. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She became very ill, and a trained nurse moved into the house to look after her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I turned quickly to look after her, but she had gone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Above all, I learned how to look after myself in a way that no young person can ever do by staying in civilization. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lord Faa, en’t you a taking any women on this expedition to look after them kids once you found ’em?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The real action was on the gallery looking after inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran the house, looked after the kids, did the cooking and the cleaning. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “If she decides to stay,” said Selvam, “she will be with me. I will look after her. I swear it.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. My mom expects me to look after my grandma and—” “Your loss, Space Boy.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z All the sisters would be in the oratory for the final service of the day, except for Sister Fenella, he supposed, and Sister Katarina, if she was looking after Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z At recesstime Monica Bradley, one of the other white girls in the class, was supposed to look after her on the playground. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “I look after those who look after me.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The buses would be filled with women and children, and one of the women would certainly volunteer to look after Bri and Julie until they got settled in. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “You don’t suppose I’ll leave you to look after yourself, do you?” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The offer, Andresen explained, depended “partly on my wife,” who was looking after the tiger skin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It had something to do with Aunt Sissy who came to the house so often, the way Sissy looked and the way the men in the neighborhood looked after Sissy when she passed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned to him; he was looking after Grandma, smiling. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept telling myself Dad was right, that they knew how to look after themselves and each other, but in the spring, Mom called me to say Dad had come down with tuberculosis. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I immediately recognized the stuff as the rations that the authorities, under a new welfare program, gave to elderly persons, many of whom suffered from TB and had no children to look after them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, the infant? If the sisters had ever had an infant to look after?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Almost no one even knew it existed, except for the archivists who looked after it in secret. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So I said, “And I like maths and looking after Toby. And also I like outer space and I like being on my own.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Dropping our bags, the mother hands me the baby, instructs me to look after her kids, and leads Chou to the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Janaki or Kali would come to see how I was getting on, but not often, for they were kept busy looking after husband and children. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They pay a family friend to look after it, wrap the pipes, run the water. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Riddle scrambled to his feet, looking after it; he raised his wand, but the huge boy leapt on him, seized his wand, and threw him back down, yelling, “NOOOOOOO!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z And in my rear-view mirror I couldn’t see that he looked after me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I just loved to be there, to be near the horses and ponies, to learn how to look after them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Seem like to me, Dentist Lincoln, you might look after her, she ain’t nothing but a little mite. And seems like maybe you owe me a favor or two.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If I came along and helped look after her two toddlers, she said she’d pay me two hundred dollars at the end of the summer and buy me a bus ticket back to Welch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom looked after him and murmured, “A good-looking pinko, that’s for sure.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “We’re going to take her home so Mama can look after her. It’s better for her not to be alone for a few days.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles vowed that they should look after their children better and not trust “anything about our children to others.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also other people’s children to look after. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z A stray not only in its plantation meaning—orphaned, with no one to look after her—but in every other sphere as well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Oakes came in every day to look after the house and cook the main meals. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have to look after my brother. See him?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Someone needs to look after Mom, she said. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She could look after the boys if he and May went out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When you wanted a holiday post it nearly always meant looking after a swarm of children—secretarial holiday posts were much more difficult to get. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “Mum, you know the priory has guests sometimes? Did you ever know them to look after a baby?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Once I am free,” I said, “I will look after myself.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You need to look after your school uniform. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Why can’t they stay here? You could buy a terrarium from a pet store—and another lizard who can show them how to...do lizard stuff. I could help you look after them.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Then they were running and I came to the corner of the fence and I couldn’t go any further, and I held to the fence, looking after them and trying to say. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She would stay close and look after them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I look after him— Amos—well, I try. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Reluctant to abandon his girlfriend, Fox, Madsen selflessly volunteered to stay and look after everybody until help arrived. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I know her so well and try to look after her but it's not so easy. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He was now a rich man and he looked after his mother well, so that she was no longer poor. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “I just want you to know that from here on out, I’m gonna look after you. While your old man is getting himself together, I got you.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Charley looked after him and sighed and went back to sleep. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Ain’t none the other children look after that stable the way you do. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Pedrico is looking after the skiff and the gear. What do you want done with the head?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But his mother had begged her favorite son to go so he could look after his father. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The widow would not be able to look after the baby once he began to run about. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z And for the period of time that he was away, Mr. Hollick suggested that Ammu be sent to his bungalow to be “looked after.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When the tractor started forward again, I could see in the rear view mirror that he was looking after me, curiously. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “What is right?” cried the old man, looking after him with a face of misery. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z How lucky Will was that she was awake now to look after him! The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hermione looked after them curiously, until the man with the bloodied bandage came staggering right across her path. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Horace Quinn was the new deputy sheriff appointed to look after things around the King City district. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "Rani is my friend! She looked after me!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Now head of the household, Kim takes seriously Pa’s words for him to look after us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just let me look after you for a bit. Whatever the trouble is, it’s time we got back.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I trusted you to look after her at least as well as your books! How could you let them bring her here?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Then Mrs. Alexander said, “Why do you need someone to look after Toby, Christopher?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “What do you even know about babies? You can barely look after yourself.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They worked for him—they’d give their lives for him—because he looked after them, made them legends, and treated them like brothers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I was very fortunate, for they were, without exception, healthy; and in their infancy and childhood my daughter looked after them almost as much as I did. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z "When you're outside, just remember, you must look after yourself. Study hard. Get ahead." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I actually imagined my mother, as frugal as she was, waking up from a coma and saying, “You spent how much.? You idiot. You should have saved that money to look after your brothers.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z ‘That’s a lie. I’m the one who looks after Salim, day in, day out. He’s lived with me all his life. He’s mine. He goes where I go.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I holler: “Why do I need a white girl looking after me?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z My gut reaction is to volunteer just so I can look after Garrett. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Donovan looked after him as he left and muttered a short, expressive phrase at his back. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “I hope your friends have been looking after you as well as these fellows have looked after us, Hazel,” said Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked behind her out into the garden, the orderly looking after us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z "Not that I care. I'm perfectly good at looking after myself. At least I knew we had a kitchen." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He's scared, Prosper thought as he looked after Scipio. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Besides, if he was really anointed by God then God was looking after him, and if he wasn’t, well, his plans were still pretty sound. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z This was because of the stress of looking after someone who has Behavioral Problems like I have. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s so easy to forget, when you don’t have to look after it anymore. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z When it was over, Strunk had to be choppered back to the rear, where he had his nose looked after, and two days later he rejoined us wearing a metal splint and lots of gauze. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked if I would look after them. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess the words popped out because he was so pleased to see how good he looked after all these years. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You’ll have the job of looking after some of the elderly and infirm parishioners in this neighborhood,” he declared. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “That way Our Blessed Virgin Mother will always look after you.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And I found me a nice lady to live in it and look after it Then I come home to Shug. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They were now spending lesson after lesson learning how to look after flobberworms, which had to be some of the most boring creatures in existence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I stood looking after him, a giant tangle of feelings inside me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Will had first realized his mother was different from other people, and that he had to look after her, when he was seven. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Keep your head down and look after yourself. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z If someone lends you something, you have to look after it.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I looked after her, trying not to stare at her cute little bottom swinging back and forth down the hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Most days, given all that Mother had to do to look after my four siblings and me, meals were pretty informal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “It’s a dragon, Hermione, it can look after itself. It’s us we need to worry about.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It seemed as if nobody wanted to look after her now that she smelled so bad. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry, your big sister will look after you,” she whispers quietly into my hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So when she brought the lunch in, I told her how thankful I was that she had been looking after me, and how happy I was that she had taken those extra shifts. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Aunt Keang tells Meng he is the head of our family now and needs a wife to help look after us while he works. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t shut her up in that hole again all by herself. And I promised her father I'd look after her.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She had five children to look after, three of her own and two by her husband’s first wife, and to make matters worse, she herself was expecting another baby in two months’ time. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Time somebody looked after her so’s she won’t need to run off any more. Next summer she’ll go to your school, like I always wanted.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “How could I do that? How could I desert him like that? He needed to be looked after.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pasqual looks after his kids during the day. When his wife comes home from her job, then he goes to work.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z When they worked together he stayed behind the cash register and looked after the kitchen and the tables, as was their custom. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘It is quite made up. Go away and leave it behind. Stop possessing it. Give it to Frodo, and I will look after him.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The office of the Local Commensal Farm Centrality was hectic and upset, but they made time to look after me, and apologized to me for the discomforts of the night past. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Exquisite little creature!” said the Director, looking after her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Maya and Toot were helping look after her in Hawaii, and Barack checked in often. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It belongs to Dartmouth College, of Hanover, whose famous Outing Club has been looking after it in a commendably diligent and low-key way since the early years of this century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’m working a double at the restaurant, so you’ll have to look after Mother tonight.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And since my parents left on vacation last week, I’ve been looking after our home all alone, even through these difficult times. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z With the does to look after, they would not be able to travel in the open as fast or as easily as they had on the way down from Watership. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was going to look after him, see that he got taken care of, and got what he needed for his work . . . He was going to teach him how to do the best for himself.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Just as I would climb up to the shelf to take one look after another at the hand, I would hear my mother’s monkey story. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hush. Take him down home, T. P. Frony fixing him a bed. You all look after him, now. Hush, Benjy. Go on with T. P.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z For all his talk of looking after the women and children of Salt Licks while the men were gone, I knew he’d never turn a hand to any real work. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “I worry that you won’t have a life, that you’ll sit around here all day with no me to look after and stare at the walls and want to off yourselves.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He’d look after her all his life long if she needed it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I try not to think about how she looked after I killed the Spackle. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z And he was sending two Ministry cars to take them all to the station tomorrow, so that the Weasleys could look after Harry until he was on the train. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It was pretty boring hanging around the tavern day after day, making fires and chopping wood and cleaning up and looking after the chickens and Old Pru and the pigs. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood there, motionless, and looked after them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Who looks after you these days?” she asked. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z No matter how decrepit we became, we would have looked after each other, like we always did. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Come on, then. I’ll have one of the boys in my office look after your team. Let’s get these things put away in your wagon.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you had to look after the missus?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z "A bruise. Perhaps a sprain. Maestor Aemon will give you a salve. Go with him, Todder, that head wants looking after. The rest of you, return to your cells. Not you, Snow. You stay." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The rest of “us” consisted of a cook Davos never saw, six guardsmen in the ground-floor barracks, a pair of washerwomen, and the two turnkeys who looked after the prisoner. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "There was no need! Now there is. Piggy`ll look after them." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “They can look after each other, and bring each other home again.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When they got to their feet, she looked down at Harry and said, “You look after yourself, now.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Joey likes to have someone look after him, fussing about whether or not he’s getting enough sleep and eating enough fiber and all those other grandmotherly things. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess Grandpa had been looked after for so long, he didn’t know how to do for himself. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Well, get a move on, I want you to look after the bacon. And don’t you dare let it burn, I want everything perfect on Duddy’s birthday.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z When I had to say good-bye again, he stood up tall, as if he were already grown, and said, “I will look after the family while you are gone.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Course Is happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He said, “Well, if she’s lazy and he’s moony, who’s going to take care of the sweet babies? Twin boys take a piece of looking after.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She never had to look after him unless she was in a mood to, because if he wasn’t toddling around after me, he was with Mary Toy, unless he was with Mama or Queenie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And I found me a nice lady to live in it and look after it. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered how sweet Lemore had looked after her morning swims, with beads of water glistening on her naked skin, but the only maiden here was his poor Penny, the stunted little dwarf girl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t think about it. Just stay in the castle, and be patient. Perhaps God will look after us.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She ordered that kind because she didn’t want to impose on any of them to look after her stove for her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm helped with these guests too: looked after their horses, cleaned their boots, took messages for them, and was occasionally tipped. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He became so gentle and sweet and cooperative that they left him at the palace of Hades, where Persephone promised he would be looked after. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They left Teresa home to look after Timothy, whom they had wrapped up and helped into a temporary sickbed in the living room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Justice went to work for her cousin at his law firm, where a flexible schedule allowed her to look after the two children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Oh. Okay. Can I look after the turkeys next time?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “You have to look after me, don’t you? As my mentor?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She was glad she was here to look after him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “We’ll go down now. It’s time we were getting them on again. If you have any more queer feelings like that, keep close to me. I’ll look after you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “That housekeeper of yours, Jack Whatever. We’ll get her visa renewed and she’ll continue to look after you. And that way we’ll know where you are if we need you again.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Harry shouted that Chester should take care of himself—Tucker told him not to worry about the Bellinis, he would look after them—and Chester just kept chirping goodbye as long as he could. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z And to my mother he said briskly, ‘Goodbye, Mrs Dahl. I shouldn’t linger if I were you. We’ll look after him.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z After dabbing perfume around her neck, Ma yells to our maid to look after me and leaves for the market. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been there before and one of the fishermen was looking after the skiff for him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It had three rooms and no rugs, and I’d look at the single photograph she had, of a white girl she told me she looked after for twenty years over in Port Gibson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Thus he spent his days looking after this child who had now grown rebellious at having to be in her mother’s bosom as she begged. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “So there’s only two nuns looking after the kids?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Miss Maggie said it can look after itself for a while.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z For Ferula, who had spent her life taking care of an old lady who was slowly, irremediably rotting alive, looking after Clara was like being in heaven. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The mines weren’t an option, what with a baby to look after, but she managed to get laundry from some of the merchants in town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Robert nodded; he was busy with the fields at New Laguna, and, this way, Tayo could look after the cattle and new calves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Or are you planning on looking after yourself? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Mother, you need someone to look after you.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This was possible because my mother and sister were staying with us and could look after the children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess Ivy’s old enough to look after herself.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She said she had applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch ayah to look after them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have to look after many children, whereas the money at our disposal is limited, very limited. So if, as in the case of your nephews, we do find out that there are relatives...” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother looked after Neil when I moved from Raleigh, and flew her to Chicago once I'd found a place and settled in. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The fierce old woman who looked after the children kept telling Minta that things would change. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a good thing I taught you children to look after yourselves. We’re not going back to China for sure now.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have a family to look after. I don’t have that kind of time!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Maybe I was mistaken to think Auntie Seema would be on my side and willing to look after me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I still belong there, where I can be with her. When I’m grown up I’ll be able to look after her properly, in my own house. No one can interfere then.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So it had been arranged that she and Bert: would look after the three animals. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "And now he's here to look after me like I'm a baby?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “There’s the nursery—that’s where the little ones sleep and get looked after. That’s upstairs near where the nuns have their cells.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I instructed George to interview the prince about how he intended to look after my daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can look after him,” she said, “as well as his own mama. She already gave him to me. Look: I’m holding him, aren’t I? I’m touching him.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I’m sorry, I was doing what I thought I had to do, and everyone else was looking after Uriah, and I didn’t think .. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t know yet. But somewhere splendid. I’ll look after all that.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Father O’Reilly looks after the kids’ food and drinks, and no one misses out on anything. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Nikki was older, so she was always the one looking after me, and it was my responsibility to look after Shani. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I looked after her and shook my head. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I feel like the bird I looked after as a kid, the one pummeled by the rain. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You need to go down with Mike and the rest of the group. Where are Pete and Todd? Ask them to look after Beck, then start down.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And he continued to look after her until she passed in 1985. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But he said he was looking after you, so I let things be. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He’d been a presence in the summer months, looking after the Indian corn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The fellows over there are well looked after; they fare magnificently, as against us, poor starving wretches, with our turnip jam; they can get all the meat they want. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I was also hungry then, I was less afraid because I knew they would look after me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That uncle would look after the other uncles, and so they would all be happier than if their nephew were to be the new chief. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Doha, your sister and I have to go back to the hospital, but Halmoni will look after you. All you have to do is sleep, all right?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Daddy Clidell was to look after me but I was more or less left on my own recognizance and under the unsteady gaze of our lady roomers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re not actually responsible for her, you know. I mean, it’s not as if we signed a contract to look after her.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “So who looks after the baby and feeds her and all that?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “And look after my sweetheart for me. Until I come and get him.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Though there was plenty of work to be done in the short winter days, there were not many guests to feed or look after. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “And I look after Kindra. She don’t know what she saying.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Jonathan kept looking after him, and said, as if to himself:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “I don’t have a maid,” I said awkwardly, “I'm sure Alice, if she is the housemaid, will look after me all right.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He tells Kim to look after me while he tries to find out when we will be leaving. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had done what was needful for him as a baby, but she had business of her own and once he could look after himself at all she paid no more heed to him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z And she said that if I sat an A level I would have to have a member of staff looking after me on my own in a separate room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They brought us food; they looked after us, took us in, welcomed us home. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z When I run across him in the course of looking after the animals, he is polite but distant. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Three. All right. First: she is your sister, and your parents have died. They left her to you to look after.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She’d stay late and look after Mameh even if he didn’t pay her, and he paid her so little as it was. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And they’ll need someone to look after them, so you may as well leave this Lumley person exactly where she is. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “This old woman of mine, she will look after you. Have you two ever worked in the fields before?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z There were spastic children, who would never be able to look after themselves. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why can’t I just stay here? I am perfectly capable of looking after myself!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I look after him as he weaves unsteadily through the crowd, not sure what to make of that conversation. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “They were the people the Home was paying to look after me. I got bit by their fish-head guards.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z None of us wanted to leave her there with those white strangers, but Mrs. Huckaby seemed to be a take-charge person who would look after her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Phippsburg has to look after its own,” the sheriff said, standing up. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “I will tell you when we come to Los Angeles. I will look after you two until we get there.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Justin’s mother looked after me like I was one of her own. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He had four other kids at home who needed looking after. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Elizebeth was back in Indiana by then, taking a leave of absence from Riverbank so that she could look after her mother, who was dying of cancer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I answered that it was because I didn’t have the money to have her looked after and cared for. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z You had more room to yourself, and there were more staff looking after you. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first is ‘a person who has responsibility for or looks after something.’ The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Ophie half wondered if he somehow hadn’t noticed that she’d be looking after an old woman who already didn’t seem to like her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Alice considered that, and then said, “What about your mum and dad? Why couldn’t they look after her?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I told her that friends and relatives would look after her while I was gone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm the one who looks after you, remember?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I wish I could run up to town for a day or two to see you, dear, but I dare not go yet, with so much on my shoulders; and Jonathan wants looking after still. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “They have to look after my sister,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z My mother told me that that could not be, that Granny was already overburdened with looking after herself and her other children and could not afford to take us in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “And as the eldest, it will always be your responsibility to look after your younger siblings. Promise us that you will always watch out for them and make sure they don’t get into trouble.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Wait here and look after the horses. Don’t move!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have to go, but I will look after you always,” Pa says softly, putting me down on the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "She told us she simply had to get better because she had to look after you." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z And I did like how he knew I could look after myself. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Prosper already looks after me. So does Hornet. And Scipio.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z |
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