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Discover LudwigThe phrase "babysitting for" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone is looking after or caring for a child for a certain period of time. Here is an example: I will be babysitting for my neighbor's two children on Friday night while they go out to dinner. In this sentence, "babysitting for" is used to show that the speaker will be providing childcare services for their neighbor's children during a specific time frame.
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They might even do some babysitting for you in return.
When his daughter phones during dinner, she is babysitting for the prime minister; his wife is friends with Sarah Brown.
Then he winds up doing some afterschool babysitting for the unhappy young son of his single-mom neighbour (Melissa McCarthy).
"She was babysitting for the grandchildren while Susan was at work" at Marsh & McLennan in midtown Manhattan.
"We weren't married when we moved to New York, which meant I couldn't legally work so I started babysitting for several families.
At the new house, Opie set up a darkroom in a spare bathroom, and, by babysitting for the family next door, saved enough to buy a 35-mm.
Emmanuela Machozi Yogolelo, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, can only come because the BWO pays for her travel and babysitting for two children.
As teen-age girls left babysitting for service-sector jobs in malls, helpful pre-adolescent sitters became idealized in a girls' popular culture that sought to acculturate a workforce of youthful sitters.
And a 21-year-old female told officers she "was aware of an incident where two female trainees while babysitting for an officer were both indecently assaulted by him".
When I spoke to her in September, she was juggling shifts in a call centre, babysitting for neighbours, preparing for university, while helping out with a campaign to encourage feminist societies in schools countrywide.
It began as I watched the guys in my intern class get promoted into staff writing jobs, while I was still a part-time temp, babysitting for my editor's kid on weekends and working nights at a bar.
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