Example sentences of "[vb past] the job [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as Dalgliesh had heard him argue , for all their demands for equality of status and opportunity , putting them in the front line behind the riot shields , taking the petrol bombs , the hurled stones and now the bullets , only made the job of their male colleagues even more onerous . |
| 2 | In this way , if caught , the smugglers had little to lose in way of investment , it also made the job of our investigators more difficult , especially when often a foreign national would charter a UK vessel . |
| 3 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 4 | I never expected the job to be perfect but I was surprised by the nature of the problem . |
| 5 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 6 | I got the job of delivering the thick bundle of passports to him . |
| 7 | He looked like a Fred to me , being short , shaggy , pimply and with a big nose , and we were all delighted when he was on night duty with us because he then got the job of hauling the heavy haybox into the building and ladling out large dollops of this unidentifiable meal onto our plates . |
| 8 | I happened to be able to put it together again , it was n't too difficult , and er so I got the job of being clerk-cum-what-have-you . |
| 9 | And I got the job of going up Then they sent me up knocking th knocking the wagons off . |
| 10 | ‘ I got the job through an agency . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're probably jealous too because you got the job through your dad , and then you were offered the foreman 's job . ’ |
| 12 | When I got the job on the building site , Mr Jackson said I was grown up enough to live on my own . |
| 13 | The day it arrived , James was called to see the producer — and got the job on the spot . |
| 14 | Well Ian is quite irked it happened because people Zain and Desmond got the job on the day and it was n't quite clearly said , my fault , not quite clearly said exactly , count the money religiously and |
| 15 | But it was the ‘ romance and advance ’ of the pottery industry that lured him back and in 1968 he got the job as works manager at Midwinter , shortly afterwards merged with J & G Meakin . |
| 16 | So he got the job as the postman , yet even that did n't stop him behaving strangely . |
| 17 | . Er and I got the job at the Centre in August . |
| 18 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
| 19 | We parted happily when I got the job at ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 20 | Er I got the job at . |
| 21 | I got the job at and I 'd had e I 'd had experience , I knew that going to was no problem . |
| 22 | That was the common ground between us ; the reason I got the job in the first place was because I could play The Faces ' ‘ Three Button Hand Me Down ’ . |
| 23 | But when he got the job in the stocking factory he seriously thought it was for life . |
| 24 | However , she got the job in the end . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , she got the job in the end . |
| 26 | I got the job in the Colonel 's household a week later . |
| 27 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
| 28 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 29 | She recalls how she got the job from Robert Maxwell in 1982 . |
| 30 | Er and so I got the job like dead easy you see . |