Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family . |
| 2 | What this means is she has to find a job fast . |
| 3 | ‘ And funnier still that Chignell has got a job in Plymouth ! |
| 4 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I know he has made mistakes , but for the first time since Shanks took over in 1959 , a Liverpool manager has got a job to do . |
| 6 | And the greatest joy of all to report is that young has got a job in the ‘ City ’ working with some options traders , which is what he had months ago set his heart on . |
| 7 | Whoever takes control of Oxford has got a job on to keep them in the second division … they 're six points adrift at the bottom … but on Saturday United faired best of the three Central South sides … they drew while Swindon and Hereford both lost |
| 8 | Marginally , now that Shirley has got a job . |
| 9 | Well he has got a job you know |
| 10 | PREMIER John Major 's son James has landed a job — packing shelves for Tesco . |
| 11 | Boro full back and fly half Ian Bircham has landed a job in Italy so his appearances will be limited to the weekends he is home . |
| 12 | It started off as a laugh , but has become a job to me . |
| 13 | The Tutor is a student of peasant origin who has taken a job teaching the son of a wealthy merchant whose household is spending the summer in their country dacha . |
| 14 | ‘ Your uncle has taken a job in Italy , ’ Louise said momentously . |
| 15 | " She wants to get a job and be independent of Daddy , " Fairfax said , " but we 'll see , we 'll see . |
| 16 | Captain Edward Aloysius Murphy is alleged to have said in 1949 that if a way exists to do a job wrongly , one day someone will do it that way . |
| 17 | Unem the level of unemployment is subsumed between , well , within the time it takes to get a job , and also the probability of , of getting a job . |
| 18 | Someone who — has accepted a leading chair at one of the universities expects to do a job and does not lightly change after less than two years . |
| 19 | Well Tom suggested , well they could be one of the , one of the lucky ones that does get , does get a job , what other factors might account for |
| 20 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 21 | He 's got a job in a factory . |
| 22 | He 's got a job and everything going for him , and yet still he teams up with Billy . |
| 23 | ‘ Tom 's got a job as well , ’ Jarvis said . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's done awfully well at the university and now he 's got a job , an important job as well . |
| 25 | ‘ I tell you , Mr Wycliffe , a man 's got a job to have a pee on this coast without being seen — during the day , that is . ’ |
| 26 | Graham 's very good to you , and he 's got a job , and of course there 's the house . |
| 27 | He 's got a job . ’ |
| 28 | That 's why we 're having a party , she 's got a job . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He 's got a job as Tsar . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She 's got a job lined up for you ? ’ |