Example sentences of "find a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 2 | With moral backing and further support from his relatives , he soon found a job in the tailoring trade . |
| 3 | ‘ I have an old friend who works for a publisher in New York and I stayed with her for a couple of weeks while I found a job . |
| 4 | Shortly after moving into her apartment she found a job where she was truly in her element . |
| 5 | For every applicant who found a job between 1910 and 1914 , three did not . |
| 6 | Karen found a job with a major travel company after she completed her course . |
| 7 | Neither had " a head for figures " the venture failed within months and my father found a job as a tradesman again . |
| 8 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 9 | He did n't want to leave his friends , so we found a job in the shop for him packing . |
| 10 | Isabelle stayed in London and found a job as a nightclub hostess in Soho , taking monthly trips to the Isle of Man and sneaking gear to him through credibly sealed packets of Twiglets . |
| 11 | While MacIver was on bail , he found a job in the US . |
| 12 | Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family . |
| 13 | His remarks came as Labour employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , denied reports that the party was considering replacing the automatic payment of welfare benefits with a policy which would require many unemployed either to find a job or to accept full-time training or higher education . |
| 14 | The review argues that Restart courses , under which the long-term unemployed are interviewed about their efforts to find a job , should be subject to benefit sanctions to widen take-up , ‘ especially among those too demotivated to volunteer ’ . |
| 15 | It was , doubtless , agreeable for Mary Smith to become more Mary Smith , but that process did not enable her to find a job or make a living . |
| 16 | In fact , his parents discouraged Gedge , especially when they suspected it was infringing on his studies and attempts to find a job . |
| 17 | It is easier to find a job when you are in work than out of it . |
| 18 | However , for the last 6 months or so he had ceased to make regular efforts to find a job . |
| 19 | Finally , after Green died , Dorothy Wordsworth helped Green 's son to find a job . |
| 20 | Fatalism is the order of the day — and if your best efforts have failed to find a job , it 's understandable that you might feel fatalistic . |
| 21 | With Uncle 's help we all struggled on after he died , and when I got a bit older and left school it was not possible for me to contemplate leaving home to find a job and a new life outside Baldersdale . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to find a job that I really love . ’ |
| 23 | Having developed such plant-specific skills , a worker will not be in a position to find a job of equivalent pay elsewhere , and so this factor , too , ‘ integrates ’ the worker into the plant , in the sense Mallet uses the term . |
| 24 | Ruth had been fortunate enough to find a job in Ilkley . |
| 25 | The blonde teenager , who had set her heart on becoming a hairdresser , was also upset at failing to find a job . |
| 26 | He was desperate to find a job . |
| 27 | There seemed nothing left for him to do but go back to London , provide Fiona with some trumped-up evidence of adultery by spending the night with a prostitute — something he had never done before — and try to find a job . |
| 28 | ‘ I need to find a job and support myself . |
| 29 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 30 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |