Example sentences of "[noun sg] had a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skiving was not infrequent — the pupils slipping out once the register had been called — and one boy had a job without officially leaving school . |
| 2 | The handbook said that the torturer had a job to do , and he had to do it well . |
| 3 | Well my husband had a job here we moved from Highbury in in London because his firm moved from Highbury in London to here and erm got so we had to move with my husband because of his job , you see ? |
| 4 | I remember being glad that my father had a job which did not need him to climb ladders . |
| 5 | Especially in the early 1930s , notwithstanding the pay-cuts , police officers in the city had a job secure from redundancy — which was more than you could say for most of those they policed . |
| 6 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 7 | ‘ You did say your mother had a job ? ’ |
| 8 | My son had a job doing it . ’ |
| 9 | Used to be a time when Mammy had a job to get you into one of those pretty dresses of yours , remember ? |