Example sentences of "take a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to build a new life for himself and his daughter , Paul Kersey takes a job managing a radio station in Chicago . |
| 2 | In Mo' Money , a young street hustler , Johnny , who thinks he needs to be richer to win the love and respect of the beautiful Amber ( Stacy Dash ) , takes a job in the company where she works and soon becomes embroiled in a dangerous credit card scam . |
| 3 | Her murder-solving cook Darina Lisle discovers more intrigue when she takes a job at a dying country house hotel that turns out to be a hotbed of sex and mystery . |
| 4 | Do not take a job on the basis of a vague letter of appointment . |
| 5 | They 'd sooner take a job eight to five in a factory , if they can get it , and the worst of it is that the ones who do take it on ca n't find a wife . |
| 6 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |
| 7 | They would put things on a proper footing , he would take a job , they would get a good housekeeper . |
| 8 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 9 | Dr Kevin Hawkins , the head of WH Smith 's corporate public relations , said the agreement would not stop either taking a job with a rival chain . |
| 10 | Picasso was working at night and sleeping during the day , whilst Max earned the rent by taking a job in a department store . |
| 11 | When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to be working there for nothing , so I do n't want to be taking a job away from a local who would be paid for it . ’ |
| 13 | It was hoped that people would not be made worse off by taking a job ( the unemployment trap ) , nor would they lose money when their gross pay rose ( the poverty trap ) , due to the loss of means-tested benefits in each case . |
| 14 | Jean Ritchie , one of the newspaper 's reporters , gathered her evidence by taking a job as domestic assistant at Friern for a week . |
| 15 | It is also the tip of the iceberg in another sense , for this complex of wage levels and tax rates that we have been examining also leads to another obstacle for those on welfare being able to improve themselves by taking a job , even if one is available . |
| 16 | But you know , dear boy , the only possible reason for taking a job like this is to get away from school or family . ’ |
| 17 | Most overseas students have a limitation on employment stamped into their passports when they land which forbids their taking a job while here . |
| 18 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 19 | Speaking at his home at James Street , Falkirk , Graeme explained that before the incident , he had worked for a short spell on a YTS course with ScotRail , before taking a job as a gardener . |
| 20 | A girl I was seeing pretty regularly had gone to France on an exchange visit to Tours I took a job for a couple of weeks in a lino warehouse with the idea of getting some money together |
| 21 | ‘ So you took a job in Germany ? ’ |
| 22 | In 1989 , in a state with average AFDC payments , a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage ( then $3.35 an hour ) would earn a paltry $33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare . |
| 23 | By now he was married and needed to earn a living so , after leaving Vigneau , he took a job at the Renault factory in Billancourt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then he took a job with an American firm that sold time on its computers to outsiders . |
| 26 | To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital . |
| 27 | My Mom took a job as a nursing orderly in a mental hospital where sleeping pills and tranquillisers were easily obtainable . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was a student at the teacher 's training college where my mother , in her thirty-sixth year , took a job as a lecturer . |
| 30 | To combine research for the film with earning money , he took a job at Ford 's Langley plant near Heathrow as a production-line worker in the body trim shop . |