Example sentences of "[pron] do not work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't work on that side actually Rod . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ She does n't work like that . ’ |
| 6 | They do n't work for one employer on a regular basis . |
| 7 | But they do n't work for zero . |
| 8 | Compared to manual workers clerks still work in relatively small units , they do not work on huge factory floors . |
| 9 | They take jobs that allow them the maximum time at the waters edge , or they do not work at all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He did n't work for four months . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | But he do n't know what time they got there cos he do n't work in that warehouse . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But , as they say in Yugoslavia , ‘ it did n't work like that ’ . |
| 17 | But a bit like Harris ' execution , whose ugliness prompted calls for decent ‘ lethal injection ’ , it did n't work like that . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Wrong ‘ Banks and industrialists who have looked into the future know it does not work on present policies . |
| 20 | If the child is allergic to certain foods , and if the reaction is not too severe , then the drug sodium cromoglycate ( see p 315 ) maybe useful , although it does not work in all cases . |
| 21 | On 5 June , Gavin Laird of the Amalgamated Engineering Union rightly said on ’ Channel 4 News ’ : ’ It has never worked in the past ; there is no logic for it ; it does not work in any other country and it certainly will not work in Great Britain . ’ |
| 22 | Do n't be fooled into thinking that familiarity will lead to acceptance — it does not work like that . |
| 23 | But it does not work like that . |
| 24 | Be warned though , it does n't work on all PC speakers — there are one or two in the office that emit a sound of some sort , but so quietly that you need a hearing aid to catch anything at all . |
| 25 | FAILURE I can use the system but part of it does n't work at all |
| 26 | It does n't work at all at the moment . |
| 27 | Except that it does n't work like that . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ It does n't work like that . |