Example sentences of "took a job as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
| 2 | My Mom took a job as a nursing orderly in a mental hospital where sleeping pills and tranquillisers were easily obtainable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was a student at the teacher 's training college where my mother , in her thirty-sixth year , took a job as a lecturer . |
| 5 | Instead , she took a job as a maid — the subject of her first book , One Pair of Hands . |
| 6 | The women were released and Martha Simmonds took a job as nurse to Oliver Cromwell 's sister , by which means she secured Nayler 's release . |
| 7 | After learning to fly she took a job as a pilot with a small commuter airline based in Humberside . |
| 8 | One of Crawford 's most terrifying stunts came when Frank took a job as a motorcycle courier . |
| 9 | When Ms Kennedy took a job as a barmaid in London , stories began circulating about her madcap lifestyle . |
| 10 | 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 |