Example sentences of "[verb] do a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it brought tension between Shana and I but if you 're going to do a job properly you have to be prepared to put yourself out . |
| 2 | Captain Edward Aloysius Murphy is alleged to have said in 1949 that if a way exists to do a job wrongly , one day someone will do it that way . |
| 3 | Tied by a child , never having done a job other than that of a temporary chauffeuse to army officers , what could she do ? |
| 4 | He says he wanted to become a professional singer so he would n't have to do a job he did n't like . |
| 5 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 6 | ‘ Transferred to medical duties through cowardice or incompetence , most of them , and start throwing their weight about as soon as they 're asked to do a job properly . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He said he was just asked to do a job — and it 's working . ’ |
| 8 | This could occur if the plaintiff was asked to do a job beyond his competence , the equipment was not easily accessible , or pressure was brought to bear on the plaintiff not to use the equipment . |
| 9 | I mean the army was left to do a job which politicians should have done . |
| 10 | Someone who — has accepted a leading chair at one of the universities expects to do a job and does not lightly change after less than two years . |
| 11 | I 've done a job . |
| 12 | He told me he had done a job at Ayr … he said that Ian Waddell was with him . ’ |
| 13 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm trying to do a job here , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm just trying to do a job . |
| 16 | Next day , along with Lt. Stirling and Sgt. Storrie , who were hoping to do a job in Syria , we made a trial flight . |
| 17 | At the end of the day you 'll flatly refuse to do a job if you do n't like it . |
| 18 | It 's when you come to do a job like building a fitted wardrobe that you realise that your house is not ‘ true ’ . |
| 19 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 20 | Considering the numbers involved , you have done a job of work which has had a most telling effect on the enemy and which , I fully believe , no other troops in the world could have done . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're paid to do a job . ’ |
| 22 | It should be possible to tell someone who is being paid to do a job that the job is not being done well enough . |
| 23 | We 're , we 're paid to do a job to get the best for everything . |
| 24 | Sometimes a tramp would knock on the back door , begging for food or offering to do a job for a few coppers . |