Example sentences of "it did [adv] work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 2 | It did n't work at first because people forgot and then there were the tourists who came in and did n't know the seating arrangements . |
| 3 | But , as they say in Yugoslavia , ‘ it did n't work like that ’ . |
| 4 | But a bit like Harris ' execution , whose ugliness prompted calls for decent ‘ lethal injection ’ , it did n't work like that . |
| 5 | She thought she ought to be able to master it sufficiently to make it write a poem for her , but it did n't work like that . |