Example sentences of "[not/n't] working [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bet he 's not working across the road , he 's not coming home |
| 2 | ‘ You 're not working with the locals . |
| 3 | If those men were not working on the gas I would go over there now , and I 'd switch the fire and I 'd leave it on . |
| 4 | The Liberal Democrats were not working on the hypothesis that the phone would ring to ask them to join a coalition government . |
| 5 | It also tends to reduce the scope for independent software firms : there are few software houses not working for the computer manufacturers . |
| 6 | The newspaper reporters , the commercial writers and the popularizers may have great social insight and great interviewing skills , but their work is very likely to be strongly value-laden and biased and they are not working for the development of sociological theory . |
| 7 | I mean if I tell you where I want dug over , then if you 're not working at the weekend , we can umm dig everything over and then , cos I mean that area down there , it would take no time at all for you to pave . |
| 8 | Er well I 'm , I 'm not working at the moment , cos I 've hurt my back . |
| 9 | Yeah , but she 's not working at the moment . |
| 10 | On the day of her accident Sarah was not working at the mine , and this poses the problem of why she was there . |
| 11 | Similarly in a 1947 survey of 2,807 women ( conducted as part of the Ministry of Labour 's campaign to stimulate the recruitment of women to industry ) , older married women in particular often gave health problems as a reason for not working outside the home ; 37 per cent of those aged between 45 and 60 mentioned ill-health to the interviewer . |
| 12 | Milk quotas are not working in the United Kingdom 's favour . |
| 13 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
| 14 | I mean if I 'm not working in the lab then there are going to be times when I shall be short of a job … ’ |
| 15 | Catherine and he still spent time together , when he was not working in the fields , but he no longer expressed his fondness for her in words , and he looked angry if she touched or kissed him . |
| 16 | Whenever she was not working in the house or on the vegetable patch , Endill would find her in the rickety old shed beside the wall he sometimes climbed to hunt for nests in the trees above . |
| 17 | The role of the whole time branch secretary was raised and we , what we 've done here , is to continue the practice that operated in respect of national industrial conferences , and it says on page four , as is currently the case for national industrial conferences full-time officials and branch secretaries not working in the industry may attend by arrangement between the region and the section secretary with the right to speak but not to vote . |
| 18 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |
| 19 | sarcastic , my brain is n't working at the moment . |
| 20 | My contact at the Yard is n't working over the weekend , so I 'm afraid I ca n't find out much for you . |
| 21 | Well it was n't working in the field that I want to work in . |