Example sentences of "work [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | An issue that typically divides them — and caused the largest opposition group , the Democratic Party , to split at its congress last month — is whether to compromise with the Communists or to work for their complete removal . |
| 2 | They may moan about it every Monday morning , they may agitate for shorter hours and longer holidays , but they need to work for their self-respect . ’ |
| 3 | Improvements to animal welfare and the environment can only come about if they are perceived by us to have added value , and this means that the animals must continue to work for their living and we must accept the short-term economic consequences of working towards explainable , more humane , agriculture . |
| 4 | They are put to work for their hands , not for their minds or imaginations . |
| 5 | But their kids were n't expected to work for their love , it was n't seen as a return for services rendered . |
| 6 | The British introduced a system of taxation in Africa which forced the Africans to work for their colonizers simply to pay their taxes . |
| 7 | Aidan Canavan , chairman of the Dairy Farm Project — set up with aid from the International Fund for Ireland — said : ‘ The centre is one of the examples where success can be achieved by people getting together to work for their community in a non-sectarian way . |
| 8 | Where heavy demand or deficiencies existed , small-scale traders such as mechanics , carpenters and plumbers would be allowed to work for their own profit . |
| 9 | The original intention that the poor could be put to work for their own support , or even show the country a profit , was one which developed out of the Elizabethan founding idea of the " parish stock " . |
| 10 | Suggestions of obligating the unemployed to work for their benefits are quite in keeping for a Government which has done virtually everything else it can to ensure that millions of Britons will work for derisory incomes . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think people should have to work for their dole money , although some sort of ‘ workfare ’ programme might help some people in terms of references or whatever . ’ |
| 12 | Give them just enough food for them to be able to work for their keep . |
| 13 | I feel very sorry for people who have to work for their living now , I really do . |
| 14 | I said that 's just down bloody road from where I , where I live like cos er I used to work for their rival , G E C well they were A E R when I worked for them . |
| 15 | It means the person never has to work through their grief , but can stay poised at a moment in time , hoping that the news they heard , but can not believe , turns out to be wrong after all . |
| 16 | Married couples need to work through their shared past disappointments and mistakes as much as individuals do . |
| 17 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 18 | They were denied the 4.5% pay increase and continued to work under their existing contracts , including the terms incorporated into those contracts under the collective agreement . |
| 19 | Many women choose to work under their maiden names . |
| 20 | We know that the best way to achieve our objective is for countries to work with their national traditions — not against them . |
| 21 | Two are about to leave Oxford University to work with their former professor — Tony Cheetham — and five other students who have already settled in California . |
| 22 | One infant school I know has opted for selecting three core subject specialists and moving the children around part of the day to work with their specialist teacher . |
| 23 | Many parents who began to work with their children complained that the basic schemes they brought home to read were inane , and they subsequently began to share in the choice of books within the classroom . |
| 24 | And in the absence of government initiatives a non-governmental health organization has started training ‘ mental-health promoters ’ to work with their own communities . |
| 25 | To achieve that abroad , they need not only to find suppliers willing to work in their way , but also to build a commercial relationship in which each is dependent on the other . |
| 26 | Already by the year 1200 there were numerous signs of economic pressure on time , and even two centuries earlier it appears that peasants and artisans near Fleury tended to ignore feast-days through a need to work in their fields . |
| 27 | Lots of young people have to work in their summer holidays in order to supplement a meagre college grant . |
| 28 | Popularly , it is attributed to social philanthropy , and to successful campaigns to relieve people from the need to work in their old age . |
| 29 | And the purpose of challenging that role is not to downgrade the tutorial staff and thus advance the hegemony of the empire.building librarian , but to place the perceptiveness , energies and special training of teachers to work in their areas of greatest concern and competence , with the appropriate encouragement and support of other concerned professionals wherever present . |
| 30 | Most of the uniforms and CID from all over the county are offering to work in their spare time . ’ |