Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [adj] job [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas was coming and Ellen took a part-time job in the college office to meet the extra costs of the season , and there met Nerina 's mother , a pleasant woman wearing a serviceable sari and black lace-up shoes . |
| 2 | Do you find that women 's schools do a better job of educating women than mixed schools ? |
| 3 | Lesley Burt did a grand job as Joseph whose gift of the many-coloured coat arouses the envy of his brothers , played by Kelly Turner , Shelley Black , Kimberley Curran , Alex Green , Leighton Girling , Sally Waine , David Roberts , Richard Bryant , Nicola Dyer , Donna Kemp and Becky Woodger . |
| 4 | ‘ The fans did a magnificent job for us tonight , and this result will keep the city buzzing for another eight days . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Bean , 29 , of Glen Road , Great Sutton , said : ‘ The lads did a great job for us . ’ |
| 6 | If an agent does a good job with the first one , and builds a successful relationship with the manager , there is no reason why that agent ca n't deal with all of a manager 's acts . |
| 7 | The Inland Revenue does a difficult job in difficult circumstances extremely well . |
| 8 | SUSAN Finley had to be as tough as nails to secure a top job aboard a luxury cruise liner . |
| 9 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 10 | British , Anglo-Indians and Indians did a splendid job in receiving us . |
| 11 | It was hard for an English girl to get a secretarial job in New York these days — she had been lucky in getting her work permit before the restrictions were so stringent — but maybe one day the conditions would change and there would be more work permits available . |
| 12 | That Soviet fondness for improvisation doubtless explains why the local equivalent of HMSO does a miserable job of providing us with copies of draft laws under discussion . |
| 13 | As a result of the increased relative importance of part-time farming and farm work , many individuals seek a second job in manufacturing or services . |
| 14 | On the move in a different way goes who leaves us in November to start a new job with the MMB as a AI inseminator — best of luck from us all and may you be very , very successful in your new post . |
| 15 | People like myself , would n't have had the bottle , would n't have dreamed of coming up here if it had n't been for the good work of people like Mike and Harry , who in my opinion do a superb job in training me , you , all of us in this union . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's half the team , ’ said Mr Fenton of the injured England captain , ‘ but Brett Williams did a good job in his place . ’ |
| 17 | He would need all his diplomatic skills to do a similar job in South Africa . |
| 18 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |
| 19 | Ben Lowe was the only person doing a specific job for News on Sunday who demanded a competitive interview . |
| 20 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 21 | Scientists may be more slipshod than they care to admit about replication and falsification ; Broad and Wade do a good job of proving that . |
| 22 | TRYING to assess the impact of what even Norman Lamont admitted were fairly ‘ arcane ’ tax reforms proved a difficult job for the City yesterday . |
| 23 | One farmer 's wife had a 52-week job as a seamstress , with an average of 24 hours per week . |
| 24 | ‘ Victor does a marvellous job in the loose for Bath because they are the strongest club side in England and therefore their pack give him the chance to run free . |
| 25 | If Claris makes a good job of finishing the program , it could be a real contender for Microsoft 's crown in the integrated package stakes . |
| 26 | This is one of the thin times , but I ca n't think of any other manager to do a better job for Nottingham Forest at the moment than Brian Clough . ’ |
| 27 | The creche staff did a fine job of picking her up and delivering her back to our chalet , so by the second week we decided to take her skiing with us . |
| 28 | However things turn out , try to reflect the mood of the scene by the pace of the cutting of your shots : if the children are quiet and thoughtful , the shots can be held a little longer than if they are lively and excited ( provided that the adult does a good job of filling in the gaps in the action ) . |
| 29 | Anyone can be a biological mother , but it takes a professional woman to make a good job of it . |
| 30 | ‘ I would like to have continued producing cars to win Irish rallies but apart from Bertie Fisher too many people wanted a professional job at an amateur price , ’ he says . |