Example sentences of "[vb -s] n't work [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , perhaps , it does n't work that way as most younger teens show a commendable desire to make up their own minds on subjects such as this . |
| 2 | ‘ Believe me , ’ says Keith , ‘ if we could plug into a box and get all these sounds , we 'd be doing it , but it just does n't work that way . |
| 3 | It does n't work that way . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Seriously ; it does n't work that way ; neither of us can leave it alone . |
| 5 | It does n't work that way and you ca n't measure it . |
| 6 | Sooner or later you 're going to find out that life just does n't work that way . ’ |
| 7 | It does n't work that way . |
| 8 | It does n't work that way . ’ |
| 9 | It does n't work that way though . |
| 10 | There are destroyers behind the wings , maybe , but they do n't play a jolly little team game , it does n't work that way . |
| 11 | Now , of course , it may well be that er all this is completely crazy and it does n't work that way , and that my hypothesis about these things erm are , are quite wrong . |
| 12 | Fraud does n't work that way , you do n't get the fraudsters rushing in and saying here 's the evidence Mr auditor , get me . |
| 13 | Does n't work that does it ? |
| 14 | Yeah it does n't work that way does it ? |
| 15 | you 've got to keep your hand moving er but there 's a temptation to try to er put more on so that it is thicker you know , but it does n't work that way you know |
| 16 | No it does n't work that way . |
| 17 | It does n't work that way in the rag trade that . |
| 18 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 19 | Do n't do this , cos it does n't work that way . |
| 20 | The welfare state does n't work any more . |
| 21 | ‘ That box does n't work any more . |
| 22 | It 's not moving it 's just that the model , when it gets pushed to its limits , does n't work any more . |
| 23 | Do we get to the stage where you know you look at the word empowerment , do you change the , the use of the word empowerment because people are saying you know well that 's jargon and all that does n't work any more or ca n't do that any more . |
| 24 | And it does n't work this time either . |
| 25 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 26 | They 've got everything on computers now and it does n't work half the time does it ? |