Example sentences of "[pron] has a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ Nobody has a secure job , not me , not people on the operations executive . |
| 2 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , who has a full-time job as Governor of the Bank of England in addition to being Lord Lieutenant of Kent , sits on an estate of 2,400 acres . |
| 3 | A husband who has a demanding job , and is used to returning home to find dinner ready to be put on the table , may be distinctly put out if his wife is upstairs helping his mother-in-law onto the commode instead . |
| 4 | The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field . |
| 5 | Even if only one of you has a paid job , the death of the other would almost certainly deal a severe financial blow to the household . |
| 6 | But the tendency in households for business decisions to be left to the husband and for the wife , whether or not she is a joint owner of the matrimonial home and whether or not she has a separate job , to have the main domestic responsibilities still persists . |
| 7 | He he has a similar job at another UK public company was all Farnell would say . |
| 8 | I do not envy his successor , because he has a hard job in trying to follow him . |
| 9 | He has a well-paid job but he expects her to pay for the family car |
| 10 | It has a two-way job , that of protecting the rest of the body from infection and dirt , and that of eliminating toxins . |