Example sentences of "[vb pp] to do a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Transferred to medical duties through cowardice or incompetence , most of them , and start throwing their weight about as soon as they 're asked to do a job properly . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He said he was just asked to do a job — and it 's working . ’ |
| 3 | This could occur if the plaintiff was asked to do a job beyond his competence , the equipment was not easily accessible , or pressure was brought to bear on the plaintiff not to use the equipment . |
| 4 | I mean the army was left to do a job which politicians should have done . |
| 5 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're paid to do a job . ’ |
| 7 | It should be possible to tell someone who is being paid to do a job that the job is not being done well enough . |
| 8 | We 're , we 're paid to do a job to get the best for everything . |