Example sentences of "had [art] [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any rate , the night 's most repeatable joke concerned the three bairns talking in the playground about whose dad had the fastest job . |
| 2 | Unless Blakelock had the early-morning job of checking on Lab security — and this was yet another of the questions to be asked — he and Brenda Pridmore would probably have got on with their normal work at the reception desk . |
| 3 | I had the unhappy job of telling Barrymore and his wife about her brother 's death . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , East ( Mr. Healey ) once told the Governor of the Bank of England that the latter had the better job . |
| 5 | Produced for 20th Century Fox by Elmo Williams , the film crews had the daunting job of recreating two air forces and two navies in numbers sufficient to depict the massed Japanese attackers and , for lack of a better phrase , the massed American targets . |
| 6 | He once had the impossible job of being PA to Ted Heath in sulphurous exile . |
| 7 | The drivers had the hardest job , concentrating on holding their positions and keeping out of the way of the front and rear gunners . |
| 8 | One set wore the same number of rings , another shared the curious habit of flushing the lavatory before using it while others married on the same day , had the same jobs and had spouses of the same name . |
| 9 | If you had a nice job on the railways maybe I could get out and about a bit . ’ |
| 10 | Now I had a right job with them . |
| 11 | 'Cos he had a right job , got plastic , 'cos he even plastics , I mean that 's |
| 12 | She had a right job did she with it ? |
| 13 | No , she never had a paid job after that because he would n't like it . |
| 14 | Oh yes , yes it did yes er I do n't know whether it made us get more idle or what but erm the hours we used to work and erm I , I never had a sitting-down job I was standing all the while , and I only went if we could sort the keys out you know , we were lucky if we could sort them out to put the keys ready for packing you see , everybody wanted that job . |
| 15 | When the morning came , he had a terrible job getting the Austin started with the handle . |
| 16 | I had a terrible job . |
| 17 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 18 | But Paul had a full-time job . |
| 19 | ‘ I had a full-time job at Saffery Champness and then crammed another day 's work in . |
| 20 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |
| 21 | ( I excluded the one woman who had a full-time job from this tabulation since this was the one respect in which her housework situation was not directly comparable with that of the other women . ) |
| 22 | Hours worked by housewives in this sample ranged from forty-eight ( the one housewife who had a full-time job ) to 105 . |
| 23 | And if he had a full-time job he was expected to support her and her children . |
| 24 | At twenty-two years old she was already a Fascist speaker and organiser at Manchester , though she had a full-time job as a secretary with Morton Sundour Fabrics . |
| 25 | As he had a full-time job , he had to push an exceptional amount of training into one session . |
| 26 | Each of the famuli , the skilled elite of this larger manor , had a specific job , be it swineherd , shepherd or goose keeper . |
| 27 | I also reported that the Duchess of York 's sister had a new job . |
| 28 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 29 | He was also workshy , and no-one could remember when he last had a regular job , but most people could recall when he 'd last tried to touch them for the loan of a bob . |
| 30 | Er there were very very few that had a regular job , really . |