Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And the amount of statutory maternity pay to which they 're entitled also depends on how long they 've worked for the same employer . |
| 3 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 4 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 5 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ |
| 6 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ . |
| 7 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 8 | France and Germany established diplomatic relations with Bosnia-Hercegovina on Nov. 12-13 on the basis of the republic 's borders as they had existed within the former Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 11 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 12 | It is a touching scene that every parent can immediately identify with because they have gone through the same ritual with their own children . |
| 13 | Thus , they have remained at the same level of retardation throughout their childhood . |
| 14 | Failing this , the section either ought to be amended to provide , as does s.61 ( below ) , for persons to sue where they have been adversely affected , or , as is the case in the US , where they can show that they have traded during the same time period as the insider . |
| 15 | At present , women only qualify for leave if they have worked for the same employer for two years ; five years for women who work less than 16 hours per week . |