Example sentences of "[not/n't] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 2 | We have seen the ways in which Sartre 's Critique shows how totalization can not work without a movement of self-transcendence , a repeated interpolation of an excess beyond the totality which paradoxically then means that the totality can no longer be a totality . |
| 3 | This paradigm does not work with a radio talk in the morning . |
| 4 | Either way , they would see no increase in their direct taxes under Labour , provided they do not work for a living . |
| 5 | Ron , of Gnosall , Staffs , who can not work as a gardener because of a back injury , will now get £81.88 a week . |
| 6 | I can not work as a scribe , and I am beginning to enjoy being free . |
| 7 | They would probably not work as a team again , and certainly it would be many months before the girl , on any pretext , work or vacation , was permitted to leave the country . |
| 8 | Managers who do not work as a team and provide support for each other and their staff can not hope to succeed at times of staff shortage . |
| 9 | But Cavalli did not work to a formula . |
| 10 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 11 | MC do not work on a contingency fee basis . |
| 12 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 13 | The two girls , it transpired , did not work in a cabaret but assisted at a gambling salon . |
| 14 | ‘ Do not work in a hurry … do nothing for nothing , and see that you get paid for everything . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It is the first time in eleven years as a manager that I have not worked with a contract and it is like an air of freedom . ’ |
| 16 | The next site along the brook , towards Boseley , is the stone-built Blaisdon Mill , still surviving , although not worked as a corn mill since around 1890 . |
| 17 | For example the question ‘ Would you like to become a doctor and work in a hospital ? ’ is a double question because the respondent might like to become a doctor , but not work in a hospital . |
| 18 | And then I had to th the shower just came , you know came to pieces in our hand , as it were it was not working as a shower so a plumber had to come Mr Butcher came into me |
| 19 | But on my recent visit to Ghana I found that my attitude to everyday life in Africa had changed radically — mainly because I was not working on a project whose usefulness I doubted , trying to achieve things and getting frustrated . |
| 20 | But we 're not working on a line at the moment . |
| 21 | In response to the second enquiry he said tersely , ‘ Look here , she 's not working in a bank , you know ’ , and hung up . |
| 22 | She was a big , bosomy woman who could n't work without a box of biscuits on the desk beside her , and Sarella could hear her now , crunching her way through them . |
| 23 | If I do n't work to a routine then I feel everything is up in the air ! |
| 24 | Now , ask the child to invent their own signals for stop , go , left and right ( this does n't work with a straw bale ) . |
| 25 | Somebody like Meiselas is like that , Gilles Peress ; they do n't work on a story unless they get emotionally connected to it — why bother ? — to them . |
| 26 | As Gatfield points out , ‘ I ca n't work on a host of acts who I am vaguely interested in , just in case one day they come up with something exciting . |
| 27 | It does n't work on a movie set . |
| 28 | The Commission filing indicates that Michels , whose Santa Cruz shares would be worth around $51.1m with the offering , is receiving $16,667 a month in salary until June 1994 , a total of $300,000 , provided he does n't work for a competitor or try to get back on Santa Cruz 's board , and $3,000 a month for expenses . |
| 29 | The SEC filing indicates Michels , whose SCO shares would be worth around $51.1m with the offering , is receiving $16,667 a month in salary until June 1994 , a total of $300,000 , provided he does n't work for a competitor or try to get back on SCO 's board and $3,000 a month for expenses . |
| 30 | Eighteen years later Jean Genet commented that he could see the revolution could n't work after a visit to the Odeon , occupied by students and workers . |