to be responsible for something
to not need anyone else to take care of you
to take care of someone or something and make certain that they have everything they need
to take care of something that belongs to someone else and make certain it is not damaged or stolen
used for saying goodbye to someone you know well
As a tribe they are very good at looking after each other.
He still helps me look after my mum.
I said, 'I can look after you.
I'm now into fitness and healthy eating and looking after myself.
It's no wonder people were staggering away from the premises in no condition to look after themselves.
It’s hard work looking after three children all day.
Launch of national fostering week and appeal for more people to come forward and look after children in care to address the 10,000 shortage.
Look after butterflies and you look after a great deal more.
Many are sandwiched between caring for elderly parents and looking after children, especially older working mothers.
She added: 'I was looking after them all the time.
She said of her husband: 'I look after him like a geisha girl.
So I quite like the idea of doing something selfless in looking after somebody else's child.
Somehow they managed to combine it all with looking after their children.
Stick with the council house and you will still be looked after when you are old.
Surely children should be looking after their parents?
THE Government talks a good game on looking after troops but lets itself down on the reality.
The judge praised the foster carer who has looked after the girls since the shootings.
The owner was on holiday and no one had the number for the girl looking after it.
The stolen property turned out to be a tortoise she had taken home to look after.
Then there is the view that caring about the environment is not necessary because this is something that will look after itself, which is not true.
They are as likely to get it as women, but they are not always as good at looking after themselves.
They are used to clothe and feed the children being looked after.
They look after children by following them to make sure adults are being fair to them.
They make them feel they are being looked after so they take stupid risks and die.
We look after our girls to make sure they eat.
When we own something, we look after it.
Who’s looking after the department while you’re away?
You could tell that the car had been well looked after.
an organization that looks after the interests of artists
looks after
looking after
looked after
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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