Example sentences of "[adj] get a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then moved to London , and at the age of twenty-one got a job as attendant and bowler at the White Conduit Club in Islington . |
| 2 | I 'm divorced now and not finding it easy to get a job in civvy street . ’ |
| 3 | So if all this poses a threat to a 19-year-old getting a job , something is wrong as it 's still quite obvious that employers prefer people with no ties . |
| 4 | Robyn considered herself lucky to get a job for one term at one of the London colleges , deputizing for a woman lecturer on maternity leave . |
| 5 | I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week . |
| 6 | He 'd been a docker before the war , lucky to get a job in the Depression years . |
| 7 | Women are most likely to get a job , and particularly part-time work , via informal social networks and the importance of this successful method increases with duration of unemployment ( Erens and Hedges , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | But you were glad to get a job , that were the thing . |
| 9 | Mr Bull said since Smith was released from prison in April 1990 , after laundering stolen cheques , he had been unable to get a job until he managed to fool the WDA . |
| 10 | The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework . |
| 11 | What will happen to nurses who have trained at the taxpayers ' expense in the national health service but who , increasingly , find themselves unable to get a job after three years ' training ? |
| 12 | I said , I think I 'm too qualified to get a job ! |
| 13 | A decent blouse and skirt , or an attractive frock , either outfit worn with a clean straw boater , and she ought to be able to get a job in a store . |
| 14 | You know I just think that I should be able to get a job just like that and |
| 15 | Matthew asked , thinking that at least he 'd be able to get a job with a marriage guidance bureau if Cadogan 's suddenly folded . |
| 16 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm just hoping I 'll be able to get a job while I 'm out there so I can go out again . |
| 18 | If I could get away somewhere , away from Glesca , somewhere quiet where I did n't know anyone , I 'd be able to get a job and settle down , no bother . |
| 19 | No , I suppose , in a way , he 's lucky because he 'd , he 'd probably just be able to get a job anywhere really just as security . |
| 20 | Richard , who trained at Darlington College of Technology and Maxim 's , Paris , first got a job at the world-famous Beverly Hills Wilshire Hotel the scene of the film Pretty Woman where he served the likes of Richard Gere and Jack Nicholson . |
| 21 | For a few months Joanne stayed at home , but became desperate to get a job and regain her independence . |
| 22 | There were no colleges of nursing in Saudi to get a job in . |
| 23 | Part of his freight business was probably reputable enough , and maybe he needed to trade on that to get a job . " |
| 24 | It 's quite difficult to get a job afterwards too it 's quite hard to make money after you have come out of college . |
| 25 | Lewis had got to know him because he was a frequent visitor to Oxford , anxious to get a job in the Oxford English Faculty , and a friend not only of Tolkien but also of Nevill Coghill . |
| 26 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |