Example sentences of "had a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One day he returned home to Chamalières and said I had a job with Michel and Pierre for £1.50 a month . |
| 2 | In August I had a job , now I am on a shortlist . |
| 3 | Sophie moreover actually had a job , had an income , which was beginning to be something of a pressing issue , inflation and the changing climate began to bite into their indifferent superiority to the outside world and they had given no thought as to how to fight that . |
| 4 | panicked by the snow which he had n't been expecting , he threw everything over and he had a job finding it all on the other side . |
| 5 | When he was released , he sold up his home and moved to Barcelona , where he now had a job in a printing press . |
| 6 | ‘ I had a job to steer . |
| 7 | In Glenelg ( Wester Ross ) where most of the people had a job with the Forestry Commission there were no possible alternatives to their present enterprises and so they were likely to do nothing . |
| 8 | They had a job to do and did it well . |
| 9 | In any case , I 'd do it even if I had a job . |
| 10 | Nails had a job to stop swiping Nutty one . |
| 11 | He had a job to do and by God he was going to do it . |
| 12 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 13 | I remember being glad that my father had a job which did not need him to climb ladders . |
| 14 | Especially in the early 1930s , notwithstanding the pay-cuts , police officers in the city had a job secure from redundancy — which was more than you could say for most of those they policed . |
| 15 | One woman , who already had a job and a busy life of her own , was surprised to find how sad she felt when her children left home in quick succession . |
| 16 | At the time I had a job as youth worker at a sports centre in Acton . |
| 17 | So always after that I would make sure I had a job to do as far away as possible from the scene , because it upset me a lot . |
| 18 | Not that I 'm complaining because I realized they had a job to do , but they were all firing their questions at once , and I do like to give a civil , considered reply . |
| 19 | The last heard of Karl was at the end of the war when he had a job as a waiter . |
| 20 | She was no longer sure , but at least she had a job and was offered rides . |
| 21 | After ten years of service , providing there had been no problems , the emigrant could continue living in Curação without working for the petroleum company , providing he had a job . |
| 22 | ‘ He had a job persuading them he was a real bobby , ’ said Inspector Brian Farmer . |
| 23 | Each of them had a job to do in the mornings before they left for school . |
| 24 | ‘ At 28ft the front window cracked and I had a job getting up again' he writes , the Prime Minister did not approve of such risks by senior officers , but the CCO felt his men expected such leadership . |
| 25 | Now he had a job in the dockyards at Emden where he lived with his wife . |
| 26 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 27 | Yes , that meant we were earning less in real terms after taking inflation into account but at least we still had a job at the end of it . |
| 28 | He was never paid , so he never had a job to lose , but he 's always been happy to help people who asked him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It would be different for Jeff as well if he had a job here , but he 's just on holiday . |
| 30 | His most important contact was Hayling , who had left Ford in 1983 and now had a job monitoring multinational companies in the GLC 's Industry and Employment Branch . |