Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 2 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 3 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 4 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
| 5 | Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case . |
| 6 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
| 7 | Me dad had got a decent job for them times , you know he , I think he got thirty bob a week which was a lot of money . |
| 8 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 9 | That publisher had done a good job , but I did n't feel that it would really be geared to the sort of mass market that I wanted to reach . |
| 10 | Looking at it objectively , the shark had made a clean job of it . |