Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] job of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |
| 8 | Looking at it objectively , the shark had made a clean job of it . |
| 9 | 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 . |