Example sentences of "took [art] job " in BNC.

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1 They forget I took the job on the understanding that management of a national team can only be part-time employment .
2 He recalls vividly being told shortly after he took the job at Fawley refinery that an Esso director would be calling to see him .
3 Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on .
4 After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background .
5 One group swore that they did not get any salary , but took the job to attract men for prostitution ; and others went out of their way to prove their own sophistication by talking to them .
6 So he took the job .
7 But when MacDonald formed the first Labour Government in 1924 , he brushed aside Morel 's claim to the Foreign Office and took the job himself , combining it with the premiership .
8 He wanted to ‘ shape ’ the paper from London , and took the job of editor in chief , with an editor to work under him .
9 He says he only took the job because the neon sign always cheers him up ; but the fact is he really needs the money .
10 ‘ So you took the job and moved in ? ’
11 There was also the young lady wearing the ‘ World City Map of Hong Kong ’ sandwich board who was heard to sigh , as she sallied forth from the loo , that she had n't thought of that problem when she took the job .
12 In 1982 I took the job of botanical illustrator at the National Museum of Wales .
13 I do n't think they took the job too seriously .
14 You took the job ?
15 You took the job did you
16 I took the job yes , ten shillings a week .
17 Belinda thrilled at once to the beauty of it all , and knew that she would enjoy the opportunity of finding out more about where all these lovely things came from … if she took the job , she reminded herself hastily , just as Dr Russell had recently done , even while she suspected that the matter was a foregone conclusion .
18 You took the job with him simply to clear up a mystery .
19 ‘ Oh , because … well , naturally when I took the job I did n't realise that I would come to dislike him so much .
20 And Flanagan , a close friend of Best , added : ‘ I am delighted at the way things have worked out for Nigel — because the fans do n't realise how much pressure he was under when he took the job .
21 The Derry man took the job as Mr Hume 's top aide in 1984 and then spent two years in Washington , working for Senator Edward Kennedy on foreign affairs issues .
22 I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job .
23 ‘ The Seconds needs a manager and as the senior professional I took the job on for four or five weeks . ’
24 But I took the job .
25 and took the job that was supposed to go into South Africa .
26 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
27 ‘ So you took a job in Germany ? ’
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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