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LOOK AFTER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Keep under careful scrutiny
Example:
Keep an eye on this prisoner!
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "look after" is one way to...):
look out; watch; watch out (be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
They did not bother to look after the causes of his conduct.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There is, but he has other departments to look after as well.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I must look after Grace, she is romping.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I did not thoroughly understand what you were telling your brother, cried Emma, about your friend Mr. Graham's intending to have a bailiff from Scotland, to look after his new estate.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There was much to look after, now that the lands of Minstead were joined to those of Twynham, and Alleyne had promised her that if she would but bide with his wife he would never come back to Hampshire again until he had gained some news, good or ill, of her lord and lover.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thorpe only lashed his horse into a brisker trot; the Tilneys, who had soon ceased to look after her, were in a moment out of sight round the corner of Laura Place, and in another moment she was herself whisked into the marketplace.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Dressing myself as quietly as I could, and leaving Peggotty to look after my aunt, I tumbled head foremost into it, and then went for a walk to Hampstead.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Besides, with this crowd about, it was well that she should have someone near to look after her.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I'll go and look after him," said I.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But as you are rich, Jane, you have now, no doubt, friends who will look after you, and not suffer you to devote yourself to a blind lameter like me?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
