Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first stop was Munich , where Wolfgang tried to get a job with the elector , but was refused . |
| 2 | He tried to get a job but he could n't . |
| 3 | Anne wondered if Ella knew just how queer they were but only said , ‘ I think it would be better all round if Cormac tried to get a job . |
| 4 | In the end , to please her , I promised to get a job in six months ' time . |
| 5 | I 'd got a job . |
| 6 | I 'm still friends with my tutor , and she was really pleased when I told her I 'd got a job . |
| 7 | He thought he 'd got a job for life when he got his old mate Humphrey in as master — they were at school together , you know — but all that 's backfired pretty badly . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 9 | As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes . |
| 10 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 11 | She was n't broke — she 'd found a job selling cosmetics at Macy 's , just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan . |
| 12 | I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to . |
| 13 | Beno was fined five pounds and told to get a job more suitable to his talents . |
| 14 | When he thought about it , Nigel did find it a little odd that a photographer should return after he 'd finished a job . |
| 15 | But she 'd learnt a job in That 's what she was doing you see , in the . |
| 16 | ‘ And then , blow me , I got offered a job at Radio One . |
| 17 | I mean but do n't you think that 's a bit out of order Bonnie got offered a job , so Honey goes and tries and gets it . |
| 18 | But I was thrown into this Guild secretary business and er you ca n't do both , not when you 're trying to erm a family and then by then my son was away and erm I went got a job and the Co-op gave me a job . |
| 19 | Thus the more time it took to program a job , the more likely that programming and operating were differentiated . |
| 20 | They recently managed to shift a job lot of document shredders ( for DM60 a throw ) to a West Berlin firm . |
| 21 | After this she managed to get a job in the National Health Service , where the majority of speech therapists are employed . |
| 22 | Wendy managed to get a job as a receptionist in a dental surgery to begin with and will keep applying for one of the hygienist training courses . |
| 23 | I decided to put all these experiences to positive use and managed to get a job with a charitable trust in London which works with women ex-prisoners . |
| 24 | So I wrote him a letter , told him I 'm here , I ca n't get a job , so he managed to get a job for me . |
| 25 | Luckily I managed to get a job with a small fit-up touring company — playing small theatres in the provinces , living in digs , away from the spotlight and very badly paid . |
| 26 | Because she spoke the language she managed to get a job as nanny to the fifteen-month-old son of an English couple who were living in Venice . |
| 27 | And they had addresses and I ran around , I went to get a job at the pit , which er I had no more sense so I 'm glad now that I did n't get on . |
| 28 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 29 | He hoped that anyone over the coming weeks who failed to get a job because of not being a union member would write to the Government and explain the facts . |
| 30 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |