Example sentences of "[verb] n't work [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it has n't worked like that . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't work on that side actually Rod . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | A part of the myth just did n't work after that . ’ |
| 7 | do n't work on that one then . |
| 8 | But he do n't know what time they got there cos he do n't work in that warehouse . |
| 9 | Now it happens all the time , and there is absolutely no way at all with the best will in the world , and I 'm sure that we all mean it , that we get on the phones at nine o'clock , and we get on the phones at eleven o'clock , you just do n't work like that . |
| 10 | These things do n't work like that do they ? |
| 11 | But darts do n't work like that . |
| 12 | Yet most of the actors he 'd assembled had n't worked in that way before . |
| 13 | Except that it does n't work like that . |
| 14 | Unfortunately it does n't work like that — you know that two cars of the same make will drive in more or less the same way , but two horses of the same size , shape and age can be totally different . |
| 15 | But it does n't work like that : we live in a society where pornography takes most of the burden of talking about sex and where talking about sex is considered pornographic . |
| 16 | ‘ It does n't work like that . |
| 17 | But communication between parents and children does n't work like that . |
| 18 | It does n't work like that , for the past is past for most of us . |
| 19 | Now we never set up questions on the show — we 'll discuss areas that we might go into , but we never say , ‘ You say this to me , and then I 'll say that to you ’ , it just does n't work like that . |
| 20 | This is a magical passageway , and it does n't work like that . |
| 21 | ‘ She does n't work like that . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It does n't work like that , ’ she had said loftily . |
| 23 | ‘ It does n't work like that , ’ he snapped . |
| 24 | For the multi-millionaire , though , it does n't work like that . |
| 25 | It does n't work like that . |
| 26 | But it does n't work like that does it , cos what happens in flats . |
| 27 | When you get a bit more wool on your back you know it does n't work like that does it ? |
| 28 | That 's right , it does n't work like that . |
| 29 | Yes , but sometimes it does n't work like that you know , sometimes I 'm having to go in Jane 's area , I mean like , for instance , we got a phone call last week about the alarm . |
| 30 | It does n't work like that . |