Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adv] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had dealt with a case of peritonitis in 1995 , and apparently it did n't work out too well . |
| 2 | Only it did n't work . |
| 3 | Had it in the bedroom when I was a kip this afternoon and I switched the battery off , so it does n't work very well with the battery off ! |
| 4 | So it did n't work . |
| 5 | Surreptitiously , I tried it , it did n't work , so I placed a coin on the palm of my hand , still it did n't work and I then discovered that the magnet was only made of wood . |
| 6 | he should have known or whoever organized the fair should have known so really it does n't work unless you make one person responsible for that job . |
| 7 | People promise permanence and fidelity , and often it does n't work out . ’ |
| 8 | Today it did n't work , the tears started flowing again . |
| 9 | Erm I 'd probably give it a go on freezing first , the only thing about the freezing is sometimes it does n't work first time . |
| 10 | Yes , but sometimes it does n't work like that you know , sometimes I 'm having to go in Jane 's area , I mean like , for instance , we got a phone call last week about the alarm . |
| 11 | Sometimes it does n't work . |
| 12 | Sometimes it did n't work , but usually it did . |
| 13 | But , but it is , it is dangerous because of course maybe it does n't work . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You can always tell when a short story is drifting towards a novel , and that 's when it does n't work . |
| 16 | Of course sometimes when it does n't work that depresses me because it 's not because it does n't work , it 's because of the constraints of the system that you can not make it work . |
| 17 | I wonder why it does n't work |
| 18 | We wanted very much erm to help teachers to work from circuit diagrams and to build the electronics , and then , as we said , at least to worry about why it did n't work and try several tests before giving up completely . |
| 19 | well I have , I 'm making adjustments , what I mean , what I 'd finished it , I did n't bother to try it cos it did n't work , now I found out why it do n't work I have to change the rod , I 've got the rod in the wrong place |
| 20 | So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that |