Example sentences of "to do a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Next day , along with Lt. Stirling and Sgt. Storrie , who were hoping to do a job in Syria , we made a trial flight . |
| 4 | I did n't have any mixed feelings about Tony being British , because I was there to do a job for Lee Trevino . |
| 5 | ‘ Why pay experts to do a job if non-experts are going to be allowed to interfere ? ’ he asked . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes a tramp would knock on the back door , begging for food or offering to do a job for a few coppers . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It stands to reason that you can not find the right person to do a job unless you know yourself exactly what that job is . |
| 10 | I 'm here to do a job of work and if dressing conservatively and ignoring his attempts at seductive banter are what it takes to remind him of the fact , so be it . ’ |
| 11 | TCCB chief executive Alan Smith said last night : ‘ Graham has flown out to India to do a job . |
| 12 | I find it totally unacceptable that another football club manager is not allowed into a ground to do a job . |
| 13 | Like many other constructors in FI , Chapman thought drivers were good , bad or indifferent tools to do a job : if they did the job well , so much the better , and if they did n't , the fault was theirs . |
| 14 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 15 | ‘ He said he was just asked to do a job — and it 's working . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm trying to do a job here , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're paid to do a job . ’ |
| 18 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 19 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 20 | It 's when you come to do a job like building a fitted wardrobe that you realise that your house is not ‘ true ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm here to do a job . ’ |
| 22 | It certainly does n't need three people to do a job like that . ’ |
| 23 | And you can all of these , all of the ones where they say , so many men or women take so long to do a job , how many . |
| 24 | Some personal needs will be more important than others and an individual will be prepared to sacrifice some of his objectives for his own greater benefit ( eg. an individual may be prepared to sacrifice some of his time in order to do a job which earns extra money ) . |
| 25 | ‘ John asked me to do a job for him first . ’ |
| 26 | She 'd come out here to Malta at the man 's request , knowing his connection with her mother 's new craze for danger , to do a job , to try to live up to her reputation as a lively , capable , sophisticated fixer of publicity . |
| 27 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 28 | I am over here to do a job , remember ! ’ |
| 29 | Bob said : ‘ When we need someone to do a job , we hire a disabled person and train them . |
| 30 | It should be possible to tell someone who is being paid to do a job that the job is not being done well enough . |