Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj -er] job of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is entitled ’ Myth of the tax rebels ’ and it says : ’ Over the last decade the Government has done a better job of blowing local authorities to smithereens than Guy Fawkes . |
| 2 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 3 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 4 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 5 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 6 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |