Example sentences of "[noun pl] do n't work " in BNC.
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| 1 | And these schools do n't work too well . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've taken it off , but the brakes do n't work ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ on which a part of ( the means of operation of ) the braking system , fitted thereto ’ This point can be proved by showing the brakes do n't work by a simple test such as pushing the vehicle along the road with the brake(s) set . |
| 4 | Susan 's knees did n't work properly yet . |
| 5 | It 's the spears do n't work |
| 6 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 7 | If these tactics do n't work , look for a deeper reason for her misbehaviour . |
| 8 | The old shock tactics did n't work so well anymore ; the days of JFK and gunboats to Cuba were long gone . |
| 9 | Last week 's report for the Justice Department acknowledges that the F B I 's tactics did n't work . |
| 10 | " Ordinary methods do n't work with this 'un . |
| 11 | Orchestras do n't work for me , but chamber music becomes cavern music , and I loved the swell of Brahms cello breaking over the piano , and pieces like the Schubert Arpeggioni Sonata ( not really Schubertian , says my colleague Ted Greenfield , whose Saturday morning talks are a delight ) , in which the cello and piano talk together like Piccasso and Braque . |
| 12 | Those big blue eyes do n't work on me , and , until I see something in writing , a proper , documented civil agreement , nothing you say will convince me you did n't know full well what you were doing . |
| 13 | I pinpointed where he lived : this dusty old mansion block of flats on the Edgware Road , where a lot of ex-husbands fetch up , where the lifts do n't work , and where there are Anita Brookner women behind lace curtains . |
| 14 | Well the Council of Engineering Institutes did n't work very well ! |
| 15 | The directors did n't work the long hours we did ! |
| 16 | Hips do n't work properly hmm |
| 17 | Organisations did n't work until backed up by the govt . |
| 18 | Well the add hoc panel of investigators did n't work terribly well , but the they the idea of , if there are a pool of ex employees in erm and in the main we 're tending to think about er you you 're talking about people who 've left to have families I suspect , erm , if if there is a pool of them that you can pull in , maybe that would work slightly better . |
| 19 | But darts do n't work like that . |
| 20 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |
| 21 | I have had one or two in recent years , mostly given to me by kind people , but things did n't work out with them . |
| 22 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 23 | Erm things did n't work out that way because he found he was er could do cheaper himself . |
| 24 | More generally , if living things did n't work actively to prevent it , they would eventually merge into their surroundings , and cease to exist as autonomous beings . |
| 25 | Encountering unsympathetic staff in a physically depressing environment ( ‘ It 's a depressing place , cold , the clocks do n't work ’ ) , many women found the experience alienating and impersonal : ‘ I just sign my name , feel like a convict , lining up and all that . ’ |
| 26 | I mean it 's not merely recognizing that past land reforms did n't work , it 's a totally different policy . |
| 27 | Multimedia education is nothing more than a new version of a teaching machine , albeit with real-time video , and teaching machines do n't work . |
| 28 | And sometimes things do n't work out the way you expect them to . |
| 29 | And so often things do n't work out quite like this — either the offspring move abroad or , worse still , fall out with their parents who are then left with a house too large for them , but are either unable or unwilling to move to something more suitable . |
| 30 | try things and we discover some things do n't work very |