Example sentences of "[noun] get a job " in BNC.

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1 That was before we could afford a ‘ better house ’ , before Mum got a job , before we moved to Exeter .
2 Mum got a job , she was a spindlejack .
3 Charlotte and Anne worked as governesses for some months , teaching rich children in big houses , and Branwell got a job like that too , for a while .
4 Has Sue got a job at all ?
5 it 's not worth it because I 'm not gon na sort of get myself into a position where I 'm only likely , where in other words get a job as a bricklayer
6 This true story may encourage you : Some years ago , after what he now describes as " no education " Alan got a job as a messenger boy in a London agency .
7 Sebastian got a job , as easily as he had said he would , working for an intellectual left-wing magazine .
8 ‘ You 've certainly landed on your feet getting a job at Templeton 's .
9 The prosecution then formally offered no evidence against Hewitt on a charge of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception by helping Turpin fake a CV to get a job with Europarks and a not guilty verdict was recorded .
10 Husband got a job ?
11 Did I tell you Billy Liar got a job .
12 In fact er on many occasions they would have to move out of town to get a job .
13 Instances in which workers take the initiative to get a job done reflect cooperative elements in the employment relationship .
14 this is where the schools I think are partly to blame , okay , yes they encourage you to do exams which is good but they do n't tell you that you 're gon na have difficulty getting a job even if you get A levels and all that , they sort of say oh yeah you , you stand a better chance of getting a job , but , its still , its still difficult .
15 Most of the senior people in advertising today came through the media , through door banging at agencies to get a job in the traffic department , through the graphics department of the Belfast Art College , simply because there was no other education available .
16 When his father got a job at Berkley nuclear laboratories , the family moved to Tetbury .
17 Once home , Brian got a job as a market gardener and asked Jean to marry him .
18 Some come like Marmeladov to get a job on the appropriate rung of the bureaucratic ladder .
19 If there were no need for sheltered workshops because disabled people were fully integrated into ‘ normal ’ society , then it would be a gain ; but if , as I suspect , in these hard times it is impossible for many severely disabled people to get a job of any sort , surely the lack of opportunity to go to work is a loss — even if the kind of work they do is far from ideal .
20 By chance , and on the basis of her scientific qualifications , Melville got a job at Swansea University researching doctors ' prescribing habits .
21 Uncle Bill got a job in a joiner 's shop out Haymarket way and he moved to lodgings in Dalry Road .
22 Crilly gets a job raising curtains at a West End theatre and I become a barmaid at a busy Soho pub .
23 Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires .
24 Did n't Rob get a job there or something ?
25 concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ?
26 After returning to Britain in 1988 , Elizabeth got a job with the exclusive magazine London Portrait as an advertising and promotions manager .
27 Everybody as they left their school got a job doing something .
28 At 16 , after getting several O-levels , Lesley got a job as secretary in a Manchester city-centre office .
29 Alright , now if we look at the , the rural instead of the urban wage rate , right , up here alright , now let's just say that it takes that amount of time before this individual gets a job in the urban area , alright , now if we discount alright the erm , the rural , the urban wages right , that 's all this
30 In order to get a job at the end of the war , she and Siegfried need to obtain what she calls a ‘ Persil-Schein certificate denazifying us whiter than white ’ ( 79/473 ) .
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