Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 2 | Sadly , it was not going to work . |
| 3 | You 're not going to work are you ? ’ |
| 4 | My ploy of leading our little group of producers with programme instruction by example was a compromise that was not going to work . |
| 5 | After a moment or two , the maternity nurse , finding that her ruse of trying to get mother and baby more acquainted was not going to work , took him from her . |
| 6 | Then he said , ‘ Well , we 're not going to work today , amigo . |
| 7 | And by the end of about a month , the guy I was assigned to work with refused to work with me because I was always cracking jokes — he said ‘ I 'm not going to work with you , if you crack one more joke I 'm going to the supervisor . ’ |
| 8 | The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work . |
| 9 | He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work . |
| 10 | I feel it did , I strongly feel it , feel that , but I 'm also sure that its an awful lot easier than , than most people think , but its not going to work for us is it ? |
| 11 | But there are differences , the WTA is not going to work on ‘ de luxe ’ lines . |
| 12 | Keith Simmons , Alborne 's lethal striker , put them ahead with a goal from the centre spot right on kick-off , and it was immediately obvious that our radical 0-2-7 formation was not going to work . |
| 13 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 14 | It is worth remembering the apparently obvious at this point — electronic publishing is not going to work unless your information is in an electronic form ! |
| 15 | ‘ You mean you 're not going to work me over as usual ? |
| 16 | Trying to pretend he had mistaken her for someone else was obviously not going to work . |
| 17 | Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same . |
| 18 | Mum 's gon na go with me , I 'm not going to work cos I 've got ta go |
| 19 | cos I 'm not going to work tomorrow |
| 20 | That 's not going to work with , five thousand six hundred , so that 's where some people got the figure worked out , actually looking at the term as a parrot strings the term in some of these places , Okay number six , Healthmaster provides long-term benefits for individuals unable to return to work because of illness or injury . |
| 21 | I gets on telephone , I says June 's not coming into work today . |
| 22 | Yeah I really missed you not coming into work with me yesterday . |
| 23 | Or you might go to a sports club and meet some colleagues , or some friends there , and while you 're training together you 're talking , about other things , you see and again , you ca n't be , you 're not thinking about work . |
| 24 | I would try and get people to work as a team together and then when it obviously is n't going to work properly , only then would I make the decision . |
| 25 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 26 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 27 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 28 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 29 | It was n't going to work . |
| 30 | ‘ This is n't going to work , ’ Alina said despondently . |