Example sentences of "do [adv] work [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | December 23rd , 1891 — It has been impossible to do much work this week , for the room has been so cold , we have been obliged to drill to keep ourselves warm . |
| 2 | But a minister said that politics did not work that way , and that the influence of the East Anglian connection was greatly exaggerated . |
| 3 | Even if you do not work some or all of your normal hours during that period , you should still be paid for them if you are : |
| 4 | And I think there was a local radio article er a couple of days ago that said that car alarms do not work any more house alarms do providing you 've got good neighbours to respond to it . |
| 5 | Perhaps the unemployed were the only people who did any work these days . |
| 6 | It did n't work that way at all . |
| 7 | When the oral antibiotic I 'd used before did n't work this time around , I insisted on seeing a specialist . |
| 8 | Well it must have been a tough old crab because this did n't work either . |
| 9 | But that did n't work either . |
| 10 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry , we do n't work that way . |
| 12 | It was hard to explain that things do n't work that way in Hull . |
| 13 | No , but it do n't work that way |
| 14 | We do n't work all the time , unless we 're driven obsessives . |
| 15 | Okay , do n't forget to have a few days break over Christmas , do n't work all the time , have a jolly good time . |
| 16 | So you 've got to watch what you take and if it 's not necessary you do n't take it if you 've got any sense but if you 're gon na take everything on the assumption ju just in case , the just in case , just in cases you know , do n't work all these the fail-safes ten times over you 're overloaded , ah but you 're so much unnecessary weight it all comes back unused , untouched . |
| 17 | I do n't work much but there it goes . |
| 18 | and er they had to call us in , well Dick went out and er I think it was actually two separate visits so they must of , cos they 're refurbishing the place you see so they must of moved into one office and thought oh you know this do n't work , move into another office the day after , well this do n't work either and he , he actually did two separate visits , whether they 'll actually bill them for it I do n't know , but I mean it 's a minimum of an hour in both cases so |
| 19 | You do n't work any miracles . |
| 20 | Me memory do n't work any more , it 's shut down for Christmas . |
| 21 | just having the discipline to sit down and make sure that we e , do actually work this out and then do cover all the areas . |
| 22 | But the energy business does not work that way . |
| 23 | But it does not work that way . |
| 24 | Yet human psychology does not work that way . |
| 25 | I 'll trade last night 's mis-fortune for the the run of the ball in the next 3 or 4 games : - ) Although of course life does not work that way 8–| Kev . |
| 26 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
| 27 | It is no good telling me that the price mechanism does not work any more . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | It does n't work that way . ’ |