Example sentences of "do a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get up and open the window , then I see Satan 's done a job on the floor by the chair . |
| 2 | Considering the numbers involved , you have done a job of work which has had a most telling effect on the enemy and which , I fully believe , no other troops in the world could have done . |
| 3 | Tied by a child , never having done a job other than that of a temporary chauffeuse to army officers , what could she do ? |
| 4 | He told me he had done a job at Ayr … he said that Ian Waddell was with him . ’ |
| 5 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 6 | Not that I 've ever done a job like this before , should be great fun . |
| 7 | I 've done a job . |
| 8 | I reckon I could do a job like that . |
| 9 | Many women resist swapping jobs because they know they could do a job a lot better or quicker themselves , or because they are frightened of ‘ having a go ’ at traditional male jobs . |
| 10 | A losing attitude says , ‘ What difference does it make if I do n't do a job well ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Now we know they can go in and do a job . |
| 12 | I do n't think he minded , for once he said to me , ‘ You ca n't do a job like mine unless you 're fascinated by it ’ , and I was n't . |
| 13 | And it became difficult , so in the end , rather than committing myself when people phoned up saying can you come and do a job for me , rather than do it badly and not being there and being unreliable I 'd say : ‘ No . |
| 14 | Workers were only used people who could actually work , if people ca n't do a job then |
| 15 | I see education as far more than just training you to go out and do a job , and I think the whole learning process , whatever you 're learning , matures you into being capable of taking responsibilities and learning other things , and I think arts subjects do that just as well as science subjects . |
| 16 | Firstly you must select quotations carefully ; they must do a job efficiently . |
| 17 | and wondering how we can do a job for two thousand four hundred and fifty , when according to the experts in the field it was gon na cost fourteen and a half thousand pounds . |
| 18 | he 'll maybe do a job by , by putting |
| 19 | May added : ‘ Gill is a good player and will do a job for me until the end of the season . |
| 20 | ‘ He needs to get fit and to improve his sharpness but it 's up to him to show that he can do a job for us , ’ said Flynn . |
| 21 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 22 | before that , maybe when the scrapers or whatnot , I thought I 'd do a job here I 'll wash blankets |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Someone who — has accepted a leading chair at one of the universities expects to do a job and does not lightly change after less than two years . |
| 25 | Next day , along with Lt. Stirling and Sgt. Storrie , who were hoping to do a job in Syria , we made a trial flight . |
| 26 | I did n't have any mixed feelings about Tony being British , because I was there to do a job for Lee Trevino . |
| 27 | ‘ Why pay experts to do a job if non-experts are going to be allowed to interfere ? ’ he asked . ’ |
| 28 | Sometimes a tramp would knock on the back door , begging for food or offering to do a job for a few coppers . |
| 29 | ‘ Transferred to medical duties through cowardice or incompetence , most of them , and start throwing their weight about as soon as they 're asked to do a job properly . ’ |
| 30 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |