Example sentences of "[verb] have a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we 're now in the third phase , where women are expected to have a job , but at the same time to look after the family and keep themselves alluring to men . |
| 2 | If I want to have a job looking after kids , I 'll get one in a nursery . |
| 3 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 4 | As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes . |
| 5 | To get costs down , to turn more coal , to work more hours , when at the end of the day we do n't know if we 're going to have a job in in one or two years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd have had a job , ’ said Simon . |
| 7 | ‘ I was never less than fifty feet from the wall and at that distance , with a small pistol in the dark they 'd have had a job to hit a double-decker bus . ’ |
| 8 | I think Paul Reaney would have had a job settling in to the defence last year . |
| 9 | He must have had a job . |
| 10 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 11 | He did have a job in the Foreign Literature Publishing House , but he sought out any visitors from London , eager for gossip , and frequently talked about returning . |
| 12 | But them I 'm lucky to have have a job really . |
| 13 | We do have a job counsellor who is an employment advisory officer but no occupational therapists . |
| 14 | ‘ Now if you 'll excuse me , I do have a job to do . ’ |
| 15 | But for those who do have a job , it 's hardly plain sailing . |
| 16 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 17 | He 's divorced and does n't seem to have a job or much money . |
| 18 | Since giving up playing the piano in the Soho bar , he had had a job as a receptionist and switchboard operator in a hospice in Kilburn . |
| 19 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
| 20 | I 've had a job now for about a month . |
| 21 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 22 | What prompted the submission of thi the motion is the growing feeling of disaffection and desertion among the unemployed , particularly the union unemployed in this country , who many never have had a job . |