Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] do [adv] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 2 | that spring did n't work the one we had did it ? cos it |
| 3 | This paradigm does not work with a radio talk in the morning . |
| 4 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 5 | This process does not work so well in all examples . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry to disappoint prospective galactic tourists , but this scenario does n't work : If you jump into a black hole , you will get torn apart and crushed out of existence . |
| 7 | In practice , this prohibition did not work — the ‘ two ends ’ of marriage and birth control being addressed directly , the latter most outspokenly by Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh . |
| 8 | If the purchaser is to try to ensure that his is the last counter-offer , so that it will be accepted by the conduct of the seller , the device of sending back another acknowledgement does not work well in practice . |
| 9 | ‘ No amount of talking will stop what happened in Magherafelt , Portadown and Belfast and there must be a u-turn to a real security policy because this policy does n't work . ’ |
| 10 | This method did n't work too badly in exchanges of dialogue , but again it was disastrous in the long speeches . |
| 11 | I should say at this point that the channel 1 ‘ clip ’ indicator on this example does n't work , although you ca n't blame the British distributors , as we were in such a rush to lay hands on the Acousticube that they did n't have time to check it ( also , pushing the Line/Mic button on channel 2 produces a large bang through the speaker ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Instead of a pay freeze for Ministers , it would have made sense to put them on performance-related pay , so that if this statement does n't work , they do n't get paid at all , ’ he said . |
| 13 | This explanation does not work so well for the majority of the texts of Scaevola , which are not excerpts from a dogmatic tract in which the jurist was discussing the disparate regimes of legacy and trust , but opinions given in practical cases . |
| 14 | In the end , though , this idea did n't work too successfully and the sockets were returned to their original configuration . |
| 15 | I suppose I thought that I had to start somewhere , and if this bird did n't work I could always sell it and buy another . |
| 16 | " That plan did n't work , but now we 'll find him something really impossible to do . |
| 17 | But that ploy did n't work . |
| 18 | That train did n't work very well . |
| 19 | That policy does not work and if one applies it in that way one can only deepen slumps — just as the Government are doing now . |
| 20 | And we 've had , had instances of why that policy did n't work , and I 'm only sorry that those people who supported it before are finding it impossible to support it now . |
| 21 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 22 | ‘ That box does n't work any more . |
| 23 | He notes that too little choke does not work , yet too much choke does not help either . |
| 24 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 25 | ‘ We must be sure that they are alive to the evidence here , no less than in the East , that socialism does not work . ’ |