Example sentences of "[noun] have n't work " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Somehow our marriage has n't worked . |
| 2 | It had always proved a solace for past unhappiness , but this time its charm had n't worked . |
| 3 | Things had n't worked out quite the way she had imagined . |
| 4 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 5 | ‘ Things have n't worked out as I had hoped , ’ he started . |
| 6 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 7 | Well , flight had n't worked on the other two occasions , but , for the sake of her own sanity , this had to be third time lucky . |
| 8 | The year-old arrangement for CDC to sell NEC mainframes into the US and Europe has n't worked out , but CDC says it is now working on NEC 's massively parallel systems which are due next year and are said to be based around Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA-RISC , although Ousley says the Japanese firm is ‘ keeping its chip options open . ’ |
| 9 | All thought the blueprint had n't worked ; at least one was contemplating legal action . |
| 10 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 11 | The sight-saving operation had n't worked ; the doctors had n't reckoned on a rebellion in the form of a massive eye haemorrhage . |
| 12 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 13 | In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield . |
| 14 | " The oil has n't worked , then ? " |
| 15 | The most common complaint , however , was that the projects were n't working ; results had n't turned out as hoped , essential equipment had proved faulty ( or in some eases had n't arrived ) and students were left writing up why their project had n't worked out . |
| 16 | Whether they want to go or not , they take their turn and the employer had to pay a percentage into the pool what those men earned , so when those men had n't work at all they drew their money from the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 17 | Luiza and Freddi have n't worked all winter , so feel they might just as well rent out their Salzburg apartment and come up here to wait for rehearsals to begin . |
| 18 | The sleeping tablets had n't worked . |
| 19 | Again the internal market has n't worked and is n't working . |
| 20 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 21 | The bid to crack the American market had n't worked , as Isidore Ostrer explained , due to ‘ the fact that we are not accorded playing time in the most important situations , these being almost exclusively controlled by American producing interests . ’ |
| 22 | So Harriet had n't worked at a regular job . |
| 23 | So Formentera had n't worked after all . |