Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [vb infin] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together . |
| 2 | The probe was ordered by then Home Secretary Kenneth Baker in March — but detectives could not start work until now . |
| 3 | But that does not explain why 12 per cent of 1981 's science graduates could not find work . |
| 4 | The Butterley Company found that men whose wives could not find work were less likely to stay at Ollerton , and so planned the building of factories in the village which would ensure both that men were not lost and that family incomes could be supplemented . |
| 5 | He could not get work and eventually went back to being an electrician in a colliery . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 8 | They could n't get work and my poor old Dad went miles round these outside villages , on a a old lady 's push-bike , trying to find work . |
| 9 | Well there was a it was such a job at that time you could n't get work and we , we used to genuinely look for work every day , but it was just a waste of time . |
| 10 | But however I suppose it but it takes it 's like everything else but it 's a dead it really is a trade er Graham was saying to m to me when I was down in London , he says , It 's a pity mum that you could n't get work you know , I mean , you just did n't have the you know , your age and that to start work down here , he says , there 'd be plenty of work for you . |