Example sentences of "and [vb past] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British electorate — we have rolled forward to Friday — has opted for change and made a job of it , sweeping the Natural Law Party into power . |
| 2 | Authorative first crime novel from a woman so obsessed with violent crime that she gave up crime reporting and got a job in the morgue |
| 3 | Liza left as well and got a job on the munitions with Sally Buckley , which boded no good . |
| 4 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 5 | I run away when I was fifteen and got a job as a skivvy with a fam'ly up on Brixton 'Ill . ’ |
| 6 | I said ‘ right , I 'll show you ’ and got a job in the Civil Service . |
| 7 | He left the mines eventually and got a job with a builder — he could turn his hand to anything — one of those men , you know , plumbing , anything . |
| 8 | ‘ I eventually arrived in Los Angeles and got a job with a show-business agency as a secretary . |
| 9 | and I was better qualified than a lot of guys in my class and yet they left college and got a job right away ! |
| 10 | Moira studied shorthand and typing and got a job as a secretary in the office of Mr Henry Marriner , a successful businessman . |
| 11 | He went away and got a job as a waiter in a bad restaurant in Soho . |
| 12 | I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours . |
| 13 | It 's all a question of who you know ’ — and got a job as a DJ on a Detroit radio station on a show called Streetbeat . |
| 14 | I left school in 1942 and got a job at the airport , which at the times we were living in always something exciting seemed to be happening . |
| 15 | Isabelle stayed in London and found a job as a nightclub hostess in Soho , taking monthly trips to the Isle of Man and sneaking gear to him through credibly sealed packets of Twiglets . |
| 16 | After a year , Jakki considered leaving and secured a job at a tiny radio station just off Australia 's Great Barrier Reef . |
| 17 | By 1984 , he had performed the same task for showbiz mainstreamers like Robert Goulet , Neil Sedaka and Tina Turner , and landed a job as second host on a short-lived talk show . |
| 18 | Three months ago he left school and started a job in a local factory . |
| 19 | Her marriage had continued to slide downhill until eventually , after being evicted from the house , she divorced my stepfather for persistent cruelty , and took a job as the live-in caretaker of a seedy block of flats . |
| 20 | When she got bored she looked further afield , and took a job with Universal Aunts as an ‘ au pair ’ in Switzerland . |
| 21 | It was six years ago she was approached and offered a job as casting director for a planned new soap opera … |
| 22 | But Mukhamedov , thank you very much , a few months after another rapturous reception on the 1989 tour , walked into the Royal Ballet and told them he 'd quit the Bolshoi and wanted a job . |