Example sentences of "he [vb past] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from Markham Main four years ago , was out of work until he got a job at Rossington colliery , Doncaster . |
| 2 | Then a few months later he got a job with a trucking company , moved into a new house and eventually got married . |
| 3 | Because he had to have money he got a job working in a sandwich bar near Baker Street . |
| 4 | He got a job at the grocer 's shop , dogsbody work , sweeping up and delivering , but he saved every penny he could till he had enough to put down , with a loan from the Bank , to buy the place up . |
| 5 | After a bit he got a job in a brick works and picked up £80 a week on day shift and £100 on night shift . |
| 6 | Then he got a job selling tickets on the railways , and left home . |
| 7 | Thanks to Cook 's intervention he got a job on Liberty magazine , and Wilcock began working on its ‘ Screwball ’ column . |
| 8 | To his amazement he got a job . |
| 9 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 10 | And when he came back he got a job in Marks and Spencer 's on the shop floor . |
| 11 | A few days later he got a job as a sales executive with the Hartlepool marketing company SMAC . |
| 12 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 13 | And he ca he got a job in the old church Llaneilian church to do this job the gal grave digging you know . |
| 14 | Er , a bloke across the road from us , he got a job up there in Northampton radio , Thursday morning , he says they give , had no end of jobs on the radio |
| 15 | And then he got a job in Tesco 's and stacked turkeys ? |
| 16 | And er , since then he come back , he got a job his name was on the board , he said , oh it 's lovely seeing your name on the board , the head , er , and in two subjects ! |
| 17 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 18 | While MacIver was on bail , he found a job in the US . |
| 19 | He obtained a job in the town on a delivery cart , the old-fashioned horse and dray , and memorised Salvation Army doctrine , and verses from the Bible as he drove the cart . |
| 20 | Back in civvy street he landed a job at the Strand Cornerhouse in London ; from there a number of jobs with skilled confectioners allowed him to accumulate the experience needed to go it alone . |
| 21 | So he arranged a job as a sewing teacher at the school for her . |
| 22 | But he needed a job because his family needed the money . |
| 23 | By now he was married and needed to earn a living so , after leaving Vigneau , he took a job at the Renault factory in Billancourt . |
| 24 | Then he took a job with an American firm that sold time on its computers to outsiders . |
| 25 | To combine research for the film with earning money , he took a job at Ford 's Langley plant near Heathrow as a production-line worker in the body trim shop . |
| 26 | In 1881 he took a job at Hale Farm Nurseries ; then , not long after , in order to start experimenting with his ideas on design , accepted a partnership with a firm of contractors . |
| 27 | He took a job selling vacuum cleaners , an experience used in his novel Of Love and Hunger ( 1947 ) , afterwards becoming unemployed . |
| 28 | After the war he took a job with the Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Company . |
| 29 | Well erm I mean Andrew , he was very clever , he went to university and as I say now he 's nearly fif getting , getting towards fifty well even so he 's buying a house and last December things got so bad he took a job as a dustman a at Anstey , he lives |
| 30 | In 1955 he saw a job advertised at Bristol University . |