Example sentences of "a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 've botched a job a dozen times you do n't hang around waiting to try one more time , you abandon it . |
| 2 | ‘ One day he returned home to Chamalières and said I had a job with Michel and Pierre for £1.50 a month . |
| 3 | I would work for one of the major charities , perhaps , or maybe go for a job in publishing . |
| 4 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 5 | ‘ What on earth can have possessed me to take a job like this ? |
| 6 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 7 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 8 | I can see this in my own case , where losing a job or a home has in certain instances reopened old wounds . |
| 9 | What is childminding like as a job ? |
| 10 | If you 've got a job outside the home , it 's a good ideas to talk to your doctor and to your employer about the best time for you to stop work . |
| 11 | 'I 've got a job . |
| 12 | A job is a job . |
| 13 | A job is a job . |
| 14 | ‘ Think of it — if Flemyng sacks you , you can get a job as a preacher . ’ |
| 15 | Won a national competition — well a competition in a national magazine — by imagining how to put together three exceptional outfits for three occasions : a job interview , meeting a partner 's parents for the first time , and addressing a conference . |
| 16 | I have n't had a job for a year now . |
| 17 | I even have a job title — Special Projects Officer — but I have no work . |
| 18 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 19 | Put simply , if it becomes the custom or the practice of a group of workers to do a job in a certain way and management makes no objection , then that method of working can be cited as a precedent in disputes . |
| 20 | ‘ I could be out of a job . |
| 21 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 22 | — I want to move to London and get a job . |
| 23 | — I want a job Duncan . |
| 24 | — What d' you need a job for anyway ? — You know I want one . |
| 25 | — But Sheila moved down to London with Bob and she got a job no bother . |
| 26 | — You got a job yet ? — Yes . |
| 27 | A job like laminating these legs could hardly be more satisfying . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And despite the Ramblers ' Association suggestion of management etc , we have not made too good a job of protecting other wilderness areas open to the public . |
| 30 | Fitting replacement windows is not necessarily a job for a professional builder . |