Example sentences of "they have work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've worked at it and we have n't , that 's the difference . |
| 2 | Mums-to-be only have the right to return to their job if they 've worked for the same company for at least two years . |
| 3 | And the amount of statutory maternity pay to which they 're entitled also depends on how long they 've worked for the same employer . |
| 4 | But it 's just as sad if highly qualified and trained women lose everything they 've worked for because they have to stay at home . |
| 5 | That 's fine by them , they 're professionals ; they 've worked for their Equity cards and they 're a cut above the trash that sits out front . |
| 6 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 7 | If they had worked on me enough , I 'd have blown the whistle on myself for the Lindbergh kidnapping , the bombing of Pearl Harbor , the Cleveland Torso slayings , betraying West Point to the British , fixing the 1919 World Series and souring all the milk in Salem , Massachusetts . |
| 8 | A friend had said he recalled they had worked on an ocean liner docked in Liverpool after the war alongside men stripping out asbestos , Det Sgt Cedric Jones told the hearing . |
| 9 | They had worked at assembling parts into complete typewriters . |
| 10 | The machines that they had worked at were now idle , the section was in ruins . |
| 11 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 12 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 13 | These writers were , the Woods claim , defending the declining way of life of the landed aristocracy , challenged by urban developments which saw the rise of traders , manufacturers , artisans and wage-labourers many of whom had migrated from rural areas where they had worked as slaves and peasants for the old nobility . |
| 14 | Opinion among doctors seemed to be more polarised , depending on whether or not they had worked with him ; the term ‘ lazy devil ’ had passed more than one set of lips that morning . |
| 15 | Dealers would try to get other dealers sacked from rival firms , even if they had worked with them once . |
| 16 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 17 | They have relied upon the ideas of novelists and playwrights with no deep interest in cinema , or the work of second-raters who might have produced something good if they had worked within a more stimulating environment , but never had the chance . |
| 18 | All along the Great Edge , from the Castle Rock northwards , they had worked in the sun , with bent backs and aching arms . |
| 19 | They claimed the people 's votes because they had worked in the people 's interest and not their own … |
| 20 | Word-list style is a careful style in his terms ( but as we have shown in a number of publications , Labov 's predictions about the stylistic continuum did not work in this divergent-dialect community in the way that they had worked in New York City ) . |
| 21 | All employees identified by linkage to industrial records also reported that they had worked in the nuclear industry and no additional parents reported having been an employee . |
| 22 | A recent survey found only three out of ten women started a business of the same type they had worked in previously . |
| 23 | Peasants were enticed away from subsistence agriculture because of the potential profits and , in order to buy the necessary equipment and fertilisers and to sell the final produce , they had to work through the market . |
| 24 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 25 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 26 | And many women actually did take to their beds when they were menstruating and erm sort of retired from active life and this was n't possible then because so many women had been called up you know and they had had to be in the army or they had to work in factories and it was n't possible for them to be absent . |
| 27 | They had to work alongside deputy heads and postholders who also had managerial responsibilities , some of which overlapped considerably with their own . |
| 28 | They have worked at the Halewood plant on Merseyside for 20 years . |
| 29 | They have worked on the basis of service , and certainly the hoteliers I know erm and their American visitors erm have a strong and excellent relationship because they do provide the service . |
| 30 | Labov 's quite proper feelings of pleasure are evident to any reader of his article ; he plainly views the episode as an example of the opportunities which may arise for linguists to repay a debt to the communities they have worked with . |