Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd got a job . |
| 2 | I 'm still friends with my tutor , and she was really pleased when I told her I 'd got a job . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 7 | She was n't broke — she 'd found a job selling cosmetics at Macy 's , just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he thought about it , Nigel did find it a little odd that a photographer should return after he 'd finished a job . |
| 10 | But she 'd learnt a job in That 's what she was doing you see , in the . |
| 11 | ‘ And then , blow me , I got offered a job at Radio One . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | CRAIG CHALMERS had the look of a man who had completed a job well-done . |
| 15 | one half of the students commenced employment at the end of their courses ; a further 8 per cent had received a job offer and would be starting work shortly ; |
| 16 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 17 | He told me he had done a job at Ayr … he said that Ian Waddell was with him . ’ |
| 18 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 19 | Since giving up playing the piano in the Soho bar , he had had a job as a receptionist and switchboard operator in a hospice in Kilburn . |
| 20 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
| 21 | Out of the blue he had got a job as a mail boy in the MGM studios at thirty dollars a week , twice as much as he was paid in the toy store . |
| 22 | Kim Philby , who had got a job at last with SOE and was working to get into SIS , fed rumours to the Russians that Hitler was behind the flight , and wanted Churchill to join him on an eastward march , or at least stay neutral while he did the job himself . |
| 23 | Timothy Spain , defending , said Dakers had gone to Australia with his wife and two sons and had got a job there . |
| 24 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 25 | He had found a job as watchman at the council depot but it had caused him to become morose and ailing . |
| 26 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 27 | She had taken a job in Manchester which bored her as much as she knew it would , but where she could settle down and get to know the people she was working with . |