Example sentences of "[verb] find a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , London is undoubtedly the best place to go to find a job in the fashion industry . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I want to find a job that I really love . ’ |
| 3 | Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family . |
| 4 | What this means is she has to find a job fast . |
| 5 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 6 | She was n't broke — she 'd found a job selling cosmetics at Macy 's , just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan . |
| 7 | The blonde teenager , who had set her heart on becoming a hairdresser , was also upset at failing to find a job . |
| 8 | You 'll have to find a job , you know . ’ |
| 9 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 10 | It may be for a perfectly simple reason , for example a partner may have found a job which entails moving out of the area . |
| 11 | Certainly , she reflected at the end of a long , tiring but satisfying day , she could n't have found a job more calculated to keep her mind off the past . |
| 12 | I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds . |
| 13 | There seemed nothing left for him to do but go back to London , provide Fiona with some trumped-up evidence of adultery by spending the night with a prostitute — something he had never done before — and try to find a job . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't seem to find a job . |
| 15 | I saw that I was going to have to find a job before I did something rash which landed me in prison . |
| 16 | First , the young person would have had to have found a job , and that job would itself have to offer day release , which at the age of fourteen would amount to two days a week . |
| 17 | Two months later Gabriel went to the great fair at Casterbridge , hoping to find a job as farm manager . |
| 18 | He had found a job as watchman at the council depot but it had caused him to become morose and ailing . |
| 19 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 20 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 21 | I wanted to find a job which was basic rather than peripheral . |
| 22 | I wanted to find a job which I believed would be secure , since my primary responsibility was , and remains to this day , the support of my family . |
| 23 | I think it 's a lot more worthwhile doing a science degree because a lot of arts degrees do n't lead anywhere because then you have to find a job … they 're not leading to a career of any sort … |
| 24 | ‘ I need to find a job and support myself . |
| 25 | Fatalism is the order of the day — and if your best efforts have failed to find a job , it 's understandable that you might feel fatalistic . |
| 26 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |