Example sentences of "have [verb] a good job of " in BNC.
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1 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
4 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
5 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
6 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
7 | I mean , it 's a , it 's a wooden prefab type hut , it 's very hardy done , concrete floors , they 've made a good job of it . |
8 | Yes , you 've made a good job of it . |
9 | And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ? |
10 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
11 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
12 | Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case . |
13 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |
14 | He 's made a good job of it though . |
15 | As it is , Vox have done a good job of producing a classic guitar with a '90s feel and sound . |