Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it , no it 's the one 's that have opted out and they do n't try to get work and they do n't want work |
| 2 | He did n't finish work until the evening , and it was then that Nigel drove off down to Berkshire , and found his father dead . |
| 3 | she does n't finish work until about half past five |
| 4 | Erm in so that it 's our fault really that we ca n't give work to our our er people . |
| 5 | How can we be sure that employers do n't use Work Experience to cover for unfilled vacancies ? |
| 6 | And they do n't mind work . |
| 7 | Aquarians who ca n't avoid work and commitments will be hard pressed to get ahead today . |
| 8 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 9 | I mean , she does n't stop work , she never stops work ! |
| 10 | With a hint of Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez , Carol brought the house down : ‘ He has a family/He has a home/He 's wearing some new shoes that he does n't quite own/He does n't have work yet/He 's trying hard to get/But he 'll give you his fortune when he has one to give . ’ |
| 11 | Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase . |
| 12 | do n't mean work , I mean the H M I 's report |
| 13 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 14 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 15 | ‘ I know loads o' blokes who ca n't get work through their war wounds . |
| 16 | They could n't get work and my poor old Dad went miles round these outside villages , on a a old lady 's push-bike , trying to find work . |
| 17 | He says he wants to work but how is he ever going to find work when normal fit boys ca n't get work round here ? |
| 18 | You say she 's got no friends or contacts here so she ca n't get work , and she ca n't get money — sooner or later , she 's going to surface . ’ |
| 19 | Well there was a it was such a job at that time you could n't get work and we , we used to genuinely look for work every day , but it was just a waste of time . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's no good , I ca n't get work . |
| 21 | I mean I 've had people who ca n't get work because they look old , right . |
| 22 | Her father is a casual miner and on the days he ca n't get work her income is all they have . |
| 23 | His age is against him and her ca n't get work in his previous field . |
| 24 | If I do n't get work , I do n't get any money . |
| 25 | But however I suppose it but it takes it 's like everything else but it 's a dead it really is a trade er Graham was saying to m to me when I was down in London , he says , It 's a pity mum that you could n't get work you know , I mean , you just did n't have the you know , your age and that to start work down here , he says , there 'd be plenty of work for you . |
| 26 | After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work . |
| 27 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a pity you ca n't find work away from that place , Tom , ’ said Dolly , shaking her head in concern . |