Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [art] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | A girl I was seeing pretty regularly had gone to France on an exchange visit to Tours I took a job for a couple of weeks in a lino warehouse with the idea of getting some money together |
| 2 | I took a job at a place where they did greeting cards . |
| 3 | ‘ I took a job working on the roads at Knaresborough , ’ he recalls , laughing again . |
| 4 | They forget I took the job on the understanding that management of a national team can only be part-time employment . |
| 5 | In 1982 I took the job of botanical illustrator at the National Museum of Wales . |
| 6 | I took the job yes , ten shillings a week . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , because … well , naturally when I took the job I did n't realise that I would come to dislike him so much . |
| 8 | I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job . |
| 9 | ‘ The Seconds needs a manager and as the senior professional I took the job on for four or five weeks . ’ |
| 10 | But I took the job . |
| 11 | ‘ But if I take the job , ’ she blurted , goaded by the idea that he found her lack of sophistication amusing , ‘ it wo n't be because I like the house . |
| 12 | Her murder-solving cook Darina Lisle discovers more intrigue when she takes a job at a dying country house hotel that turns out to be a hotbed of sex and mystery . |
| 13 | The manager is the manager because he or she takes the job on . |
| 14 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
| 15 | To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital . |
| 16 | Instead , she took a job as a maid — the subject of her first book , One Pair of Hands . |
| 17 | She had always been interested in beauty culture and hair-styling , so she took a job with a small hairdressing parlour in Stepney to learn the tricks of the trade and when she felt she knew enough , gave in her notice and advertised her services : Lady clients visited in the comfort and privacy of their own homes . |
| 18 | After learning to fly she took a job as a pilot with a small commuter airline based in Humberside . |
| 19 | There was also the young lady wearing the ‘ World City Map of Hong Kong ’ sandwich board who was heard to sigh , as she sallied forth from the loo , that she had n't thought of that problem when she took the job . |
| 20 | Belinda thrilled at once to the beauty of it all , and knew that she would enjoy the opportunity of finding out more about where all these lovely things came from … if she took the job , she reminded herself hastily , just as Dr Russell had recently done , even while she suspected that the matter was a foregone conclusion . |
| 21 | ‘ So you took a job in Germany ? ’ |
| 22 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 23 | ‘ That you took a job in the ski-shop at Soldeu because you were ‘ resting ’ , as you people call it when you 're out of work — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So you took the job and moved in ? ’ |
| 25 | You took the job ? |
| 26 | You took the job did you |
| 27 | You took the job with him simply to clear up a mystery . |
| 28 | ‘ The idea is , if you get them all swimming — without Mr Foggerty and me , that is … if you take the job on , and take them to the baths several times a week — if you teach them to swim , we 'll give you a motor-bike . ’ |
| 29 | The choice is clear — you take the job that is at the status you require ( never mind the specialty ) wherever it is offered , or take a job below your grade in the area where your spouse works . |
| 30 | That is , if you take the job , ’ he added as an afterthought , frowning . |