Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [not/n't] work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't work on that side actually Rod . |
| 2 | you know as I say I 've not worked in this division but I I know that these have been fully sold , that 's the sort of money and once again that has to be done in three weeks . |
| 3 | I have n't worked for 30 years , since my first child was born . |
| 4 | She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child . |
| 5 | ‘ She has n't worked for seven years , ’ I said |
| 6 | I do know about actresses such as Patrice Charbonneau , who did n't work for several years after starring in the lesbian love story Desert Hearts . |
| 7 | In 1989 , in a state with average AFDC payments , a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage ( then $3.35 an hour ) would earn a paltry $33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare . |
| 8 | Well she did work full time in London , but she said that was to much for her so she 's , she did n't work at all , now she 's gone back to work three days a week in Orpington I think . |
| 9 | But in 24 of 40 WFS countries , among women who worked , levels of infant mortality were lower when the mother was employed away from home in anon-farm occupation ( some education and skills ) than when she had not worked at all since marriage . |
| 10 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |
| 11 | ‘ She does n't work like that . ’ |
| 12 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 13 | with the greatest respect you ca n't actually cos you have n't worked with that many of them have you ? |
| 14 | If you have not worked in these fields before ask the advice of the photographers . |
| 15 | They do n't work for one employer on a regular basis . |
| 16 | But they do n't work for zero . |
| 17 | Compared to manual workers clerks still work in relatively small units , they do not work on huge factory floors . |
| 18 | They take jobs that allow them the maximum time at the waters edge , or they do not work at all . |
| 19 | ‘ But it has n't worked like that . ’ |
| 20 | Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all . |
| 21 | He did n't work for four months . |
| 22 | yeah I mean , and the trouble is what n annoys me more than anything is the fact that he 's good worker I me even when he 's drunk , alright he do n't work at full capacity but he does sort of almost as much as what they do and when he 's |
| 23 | But he do n't know what time they got there cos he do n't work in that warehouse . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But , as they say in Yugoslavia , ‘ it did n't work like that ’ . |
| 27 | But a bit like Harris ' execution , whose ugliness prompted calls for decent ‘ lethal injection ’ , it did n't work like that . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By the time Crawford returned to the stage in mid-1971 , he had not worked for fourteen months . |
| 30 | Wrong ‘ Banks and industrialists who have looked into the future know it does not work on present policies . |