Example sentences of "[verb] he the job " in BNC.
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1 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
2 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
3 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
4 | He says : ‘ When he was Chancellor Nigel Lawson made mistakes in his last Budget which eventually cost him the job . |
5 | Then she spotted a public telephone and decided she could not wait another minute to call Nick and tell him the job was completed . |
6 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
7 | And their Aussie coach Peter Walsh intends to repay them for the huge gamble they took when giving him the job last summer . |
8 | And after a meeting of the club 's directors yesterday , Rovers vice-chairman Geoff Dunford revealed : ‘ We are very pleased with the job Malcolm is doing and we are considering giving him the job until the end of the season . ’ |
9 | Not sure whether this was a good move giving him the job . |
10 | When Gilroy explained the commercial necessities of having to recast , and offered him the job of understudy and assistant stage manager , he stormed out of the theatre in a rage . |
11 | No one had — at least officially — offered him the job , though he knew Hogan of Marlboro would be glad to have him , but the bluff worked . |
12 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
13 | She would get him the job , if he gave her money and clients . |
14 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
15 | In fact it was almost certain that the Chairman would offer him the job — it was in a pressed steel company of which his father-in-law was a director — and almost equally certain that he would accept it if he did . |
16 | ‘ I 'm beginning to wonder if I was n't a bit impetuous offering him the job just like that . |