Example sentences of "a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 100 jobs have also been found through a community employment and enterprise centre set up in the shopping centre and through a residents-run job club . |
| 2 | Yes , it really is a pleasant job . |
| 3 | I do keep an eye on my colour changer to make sure that it is picking up each colour as it should and I am also very careful to check that I have no ‘ lazy ’ or less than perfect needles as picking up dropped stitches is not a pleasant job . |
| 4 | A painstaking job , needing a steady hand , especially on such a famous trophy . |
| 5 | Now I had a right job with them . |
| 6 | 'Cos he had a right job , got plastic , 'cos he even plastics , I mean that 's |
| 7 | She had a right job did she with it ? |
| 8 | If it 's a private job , then it 's only common courtesy to have a word with the owners of the house and ask if they mind you helping yourself to an old door , or whatever . |
| 9 | until I got fixed up with a private job |
| 10 | " Yes , I met someone the other night who made a sort of suggestion about a possible job of some kind . " |
| 11 | Hill was a key part of the 1991 Grand Slam team but admitted : ‘ Dewi won the shirt last season and did a terrific job as the lads won the Slam for a second successive year . |
| 12 | We do a terrific job . ’ |
| 13 | The make-up did a terrific job , but could n't get rid of the two deep creases that ran from the corners of her mouth to her jawline , or the network of lines on her brow . |
| 14 | You 've done a terrific job . |
| 15 | ‘ But Ian did a terrific job and the win was a real bonus for us . ’ |
| 16 | Our building and works lads did a terrific job . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 18 | You 're doing a terrific job . ’ |
| 19 | It 's not so long since it was in the United States and er I 'm quite shocked really , but I 'm er I mean Manchester did a terrific job really . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a high-pressure job , and you burn out young , ’ Laura agreed , pointing to the numbers and letters scrolling constantly across a video screen above her desk showing the commodity prices in London , New York and Chicago . |
| 21 | We can plod our weary way through the days , sticking to a monotonous job and loveless relationships , watching TV every evening , filling our days with meaningless trivia — leading lives of ‘ quiet desperation ’ in Thoreau 's words . |
| 22 | Erm and it 's just a normal job . |
| 23 | I just do a normal job . |
| 24 | I thought you was gon na say have your veins done is a normal job |
| 25 | With all the work she had to do my mother could not do a sloppy job . |
| 26 | You do n't imagine a hired gun would do a sloppy job like that do you ? ’ |
| 27 | It has a two-way job , that of protecting the rest of the body from infection and dirt , and that of eliminating toxins . |
| 28 | Because a lifetime of debauchery somehow loses its romantic kudos once it winds down to a respectable job and keep-fit classes ; it stops being a biopic and starts sounding like a how-I-conquered-my-bad-habits-and-became-a-normal-person telefilm . |
| 29 | Have you finished that book on how to get yourself a respectable job ? ’ |
| 30 | Like all the books that followed , Ragged Dick told the story of a young man who , by pluck and luck , rises from his lowly station to earn a respectable job and the promise of a better life . |