Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] job [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 2 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 3 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 4 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
| 5 | The police had done a reasonable job of cleaning up and had put a plastic sheet over the hole in the window to keep the rain out . |
| 6 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |
| 7 | Show secretary 's report in the show secretary 's absence due to the accident on route tonight the chairman said Mrs had done a fantastic job over the year and he wished to record his thanks to her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |
| 12 | Looking at it objectively , the shark had made a clean job of it . |
| 13 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 14 | Margaret had had a paid job with the BUF in the last few months of her membership but with Joyce 's departure from the movement she had lost that as well . |
| 15 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 16 | Me dad had got a decent job for them times , you know he , I think he got thirty bob a week which was a lot of money . |
| 17 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |