Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | To them mathematics will be relevant if it helps their children gain a qualification which , in turn , will enable them to obtain a good job . |
| 2 | So I er when I said it to him , on top I made a good job I says . |
| 3 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 4 | When I left in here at the when the receivers come in I got a wee job in Centre , up the town , and I had , I could have got a job in a hosiery in but I did n't fancy travelling down there , so I took that wee job up there . |
| 5 | So eventually I got a temporary job , er in ni end of sixty , which lasted til er February sixty one . |
| 6 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 7 | The father moved in and I got a full-time job in another engineering company . |
| 8 | then I found a bloody job ! |
| 9 | I would n't train full-time ; I thought : ‘ No , I want a good job . ’ |
| 10 | I want a decent job , I want to do something useful , and something interesting . |
| 11 | My father 's sort of said to me that if I want a job afterwards , and if I want a decent job and a job with a future , it 's got to be on the engineering side of the works . |
| 12 | I done a little job for Tony here . |
| 13 | I 'm beginning to think I 'll leave in the summer , whether I get a proper job or not . |
| 14 | She is also on the books of Premier model agency , ‘ to get a little money til I find a proper job ’ . |
| 15 | Four weeks before was due I started a new job here in Birmingham leaving and in Yorkshire . |
| 16 | When I lost a temporary job in a local Traffic Office , I packed my things rather than face another bleak winter and with seven shillings and sixpence in my pocket I went to some friends in south-east London . |
| 17 | I do a good job and I make mistakes . |
| 18 | ‘ Just because I do a good job for her business does not mean that I wish to sleep with her . ’ |
| 19 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 20 | I believe I did a good job , as Louis was a kind , caring and considerate young man . |
| 21 | ‘ It was stupid , and I suppose I did a bad job of it , but it was not easy , offering to set aside my rigid Old-World principles and give you the freedom you wanted . ’ |
| 22 | I had a rare job rousing you this morning . ’ |
| 23 | Now I had a right job with them . |
| 24 | ‘ I had a full-time job at Saffery Champness and then crammed another day 's work in . |
| 25 | Quite a come-down from the two-page list of duties required of me when I had a real job . |
| 26 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 27 | I had a terrible job . |
| 28 | ‘ Left , left , I had a good job an' I left , ’ they chanted as they went . |
| 29 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 30 | I had a good job , was head of a department in a large record company and had achieved the ambitions of my early twenties in a brutish , short-term kind of way . |