Example sentences of "get a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Think of it — if Flemyng sacks you , you can get a job as a preacher . ’ |
| 2 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 3 | Southern hooligans in employment sing ‘ You 'll never get a job ’ to northerners , especially Liverpudlians . |
| 4 | If I could get a job doing summat like that I reckon I would n't have to stay at Combe Court . |
| 5 | She has been unable to get an academic job since ; she did not get a job in science until 1990 , when she was hired by Genetics Institute , a biotechnology company founded by one of her few supporters , Mark Ptashne of Harvard . |
| 6 | ‘ Would it be possible , if I could get a job , to pay for her in a private home , with part of her pension added on ? |
| 7 | ‘ If you can get a job and we can find Mrs Ross a suitable home , I think she will probably be happier where there is more life going on around her . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I shall get a job . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think I could get a job in London ? |
| 10 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 12 | You could get a job auditing the use of these funds in southern Italy , but I think you would be safer and richer as the man who gives them out . |
| 13 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |
| 14 | I will get a job and pay you back as soon as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , you 'll never get a job here , Robyn . |
| 16 | If he could get a job , it might be easier to initiate some change . |
| 17 | Should I get a job as a bar-maid ? |
| 18 | I 'll stay here and get a job in a café at one pound fifty an hour . |
| 19 | It was always assumed that they would get a job , a home , a wife and children , in that order . |
| 20 | You could n't get a job as a Nippy if you had anything more than an eighteen-inch waist . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why do n't they get a job ? ' |
| 22 | She could n't expect to stay long with Aunt Sarah ; where would she get a job ? |
| 23 | ‘ When my husband was made redundant , I said blithely , ‘ Do n't worry , darling , I 'll get a job . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I could get a job as a mechanical grabber down at Southend Pier , ’ he joked . |
| 25 | She says when I leave school I have to go out and get a job for at least three years before I even think of Entering . ’ |
| 26 | I 'll get a job , really I will . |
| 27 | I ca n't get a job . |
| 28 | Then he set Mick off into another spasm of laughter when he asked , ‘ Do you think I could get a job alongside you in the factory ? ’ |
| 29 | ( Another of Sharky 's new routes in Cheedale is the quaintly named Thrash Your Woodie — maybe he could get a job writing Finbar Saunders scripts ! ) |
| 30 | But he ca n't get a job — because he 's blind and deaf . |