Example sentences of "[pers pn] took a 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital . |
| 6 | Instead , she took a job as a maid — the subject of her first book , One Pair of Hands . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After learning to fly she took a job as a pilot with a small commuter airline based in Humberside . |
| 9 | ‘ So you took a job in Germany ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 12 | By now he was married and needed to earn a living so , after leaving Vigneau , he took a job at the Renault factory in Billancourt . |
| 13 | Then he took a job with an American firm that sold time on its computers to outsiders . |
| 14 | To combine research for the film with earning money , he took a job at Ford 's Langley plant near Heathrow as a production-line worker in the body trim shop . |
| 15 | In 1881 he took a job at Hale Farm Nurseries ; then , not long after , in order to start experimenting with his ideas on design , accepted a partnership with a firm of contractors . |
| 16 | He took a job selling vacuum cleaners , an experience used in his novel Of Love and Hunger ( 1947 ) , afterwards becoming unemployed . |
| 17 | After the war he took a job with the Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Company . |
| 18 | Well erm I mean Andrew , he was very clever , he went to university and as I say now he 's nearly fif getting , getting towards fifty well even so he 's buying a house and last December things got so bad he took a job as a dustman a at Anstey , he lives |