Example sentences of "was n't working " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few hurried situations I forgot to switch on , and missed the picture opportunity while trying to figure out why the camera was n't working . |
| 2 | First the indicator board was n't working . |
| 3 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 4 | It was n't working out as they had hoped . |
| 5 | It was n't working out like he 'd thought and it was going to take him a lot longer than he 'd planned . |
| 6 | ‘ It was nice just to do shopping and the other sister stuff — in the hours when I was n't working . |
| 7 | He would n't say what was n't working out , though I guess it was the sexual frustration and not being able to put a date on setting up home together . |
| 8 | Only it was n't working out . |
| 9 | Keith takes this further : ‘ We were a little limited when we were recording the guitars , limited by the size of the room and the fact that some of the gear was n't working properly , so obstructive forces were at work and this is where compromise comes in ; you 're spending all this time when you know it could be a lot better . ’ |
| 10 | But it was n't working . |
| 11 | Cameras went wrong , George 's microphone was n't working and we had to start the show again , a light exploded . |
| 12 | Given Duchamp 's long residence in America , and his contacts with and influence on American art , I can see why he might be included , although most of the time he was a presence on the scene here he was n't working publicly . |
| 13 | ‘ I told him — my husband had a hard job , he was n't working for a time . |
| 14 | It was terrible , I just sat in the house all day and when my husband was n't working he 'd just scream at me and the kids would be screaming and he 'd be hitting them . " |
| 15 | He asked me if I was sure I was n't working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious . |
| 16 | we had Roy and then we had Simon for a bit and then we decided because it was n't working altogether an Edinburgh person and a Glasgow person |
| 17 | Well it was n't working in the field that I want to work in . |
| 18 | ‘ But it was true , Labour was n't working . ’ |
| 19 | After several long moments had passed , it began to occur to Henri that something was n't working properly . |
| 20 | Keith did n't give any financial support because he was n't working then . |
| 21 | And the er overflow was n't working properly . |
| 22 | Trosser was n't working and we 're going to do some Terbinefeine and provided the blood tests were okay . |
| 23 | His quarry might not be back yet , or perhaps the bell was n't working . |
| 24 | Today he sat surrounded by paints and solvents , balls of string , boxes of old cotton reels and electrical parts , but he was n't working . |
| 25 | My baby was born at 29 weeks , after an emergency Caesarean section , because the placenta was n't working properly . |
| 26 | She knew that Faye had issued the invitation to Tom as a deliberate part of her campaign to bring the two of them together , and somehow she had to summon the courage today … or soon … to tell her patient that it just was n't working , it was pointless , and she would prefer it if Faye gave up the idea . |
| 27 | ‘ His tale was that it was n't working properly . |
| 28 | ‘ Many of us felt he should have had the courage to admit that the job was n't working out instead of using his reputation as England manager to negotiate a lucrative overseas contract and then leaving everyone high and dry without a second thought . |
| 29 | Prolonged absences from the job meant that now she was n't working . |
| 30 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |