Example sentences of "[verb] for a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 2 | After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ . |
| 3 | I applied for a job at Anglia as a news reporter . |
| 4 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |
| 5 | I applied for a job on Query and got it . |
| 6 | His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 7 | When she followed the instructions and applied for a job interview she was told : ‘ Sorry , we are only recruiting staff from Ireland . ’ |
| 8 | I applied for a job and three people turned |
| 9 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 10 | The fourth of Ashby 's proposals consists of the introduction of special incentives to employers , both in the private and public sector , to take on to their payrolls those who have failed to find work , even though they have done everything asked of them — are actively seeking work , registered for a job , been a member of a Job Club and been on an ET course . |
| 11 | He had chosen this woman specifically because she was the sort she was — a simple type , immediately responsive to the baby , no outside involvements , so she was free to give her entire time to him , willing to do without time off while the baby was still on the breast , and not expecting the massive salary most women would want for a job like this . |
| 12 | Thus when the dried food is gone , a favourite delicacy is given for a job well done . |
| 13 | That evening I rang Fred Workman , News Editor of the Times-Herald , at his home and asked for a job as cub reporter . |
| 14 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 15 | You cos you know Bonnie yeah , sh she erm got offered a er job in Glitters in Camden yeah it 's a shop in Camden , and sh she told Honey and Dan about it yeah and the next thing she knows yeah like the next day , she 's talking to Dan and Honey and Honey comes out and says oh I went down to Glitters and asked for a job right said right to Honey 's face I mean Bonnie 's face . |
| 16 | Soon Godwin was to sell the shop to Collins — and trigger its slow decline — but before he quit for a job as chief editor with Penguin Books he decided to open a paperback section in Old Compton Street . |
| 17 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 18 | Three days later Haslam was being interviewed for a job at ICI and he was offered the chance to become a technical services engineer in the Nobel Division , an offer he snapped up immediately . |
| 19 | Fourteen years ago , when I was being interviewed for a job in the BBC Natural History Unit . |
| 20 | When you are interviewed for a job which may involve press relations ( and most do ) your potential employer will often call a few journalists on major publications to see what reaction they have to your name . |
| 21 | Besides , she had always hankered for a job in uniform . |
| 22 | I tried for a job . |
| 23 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 24 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 25 | You can then apply a similar method to the second major piece of preparation before applying for a job : matching yourself to the job for which you might apply . |
| 26 | Applying for a job |
| 27 | Send it whenever you are applying for a job ‘ on spec. ’ or where no mention is made in an advertisement of an application form ( which usually covers the same type of information ) . |
| 28 | This question is often given to people applying for a job in management or administration . |
| 29 | Beware the hackneyed navy suit , unless you can brighten it with a colourful blouse or you 're applying for a job in the City . |
| 30 | Applying for a job |