Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] work for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child .
2 ‘ She has n't worked for seven years , ’ I said
3 In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield .
4 Such restrictive terms will be upheld by the courts only if they are reasonable , such as when a computer programmer working for a bank agrees not to work for another similar bank within a five mile radius for the first year following the termination of his employment .
5 On my machine at least the re-programming does n't work for shifted keys and what you actually get is the 2 key producing the S. I have fiddled around with different forms of getting ANSI.SYS to do it but so far I have failed .
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