Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a rare job rousing you this morning . ’ |
| 2 | Now I had a right job with them . |
| 3 | ‘ I had a full-time job at Saffery Champness and then crammed another day 's work in . |
| 4 | Quite a come-down from the two-page list of duties required of me when I had a real job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had a terrible job . |
| 7 | ‘ Left , left , I had a good job an' I left , ’ they chanted as they went . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd be quite happy to go to work if erm if I had a good job and my boyfriend stayed at home , that 'd suit me fine ! |
| 11 | — Sure , I had a good job and a comfortable home , I even had people who invited me to their houses . |
| 12 | I had a good job as an electronics engineer and have just been given three months notice , losing all my pension rights after working 26 years for the same company . |
| 13 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 14 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 15 | I had a proper job . |
| 16 | I had a proper job teaching mad scallies in the people 's republic of Skelmersdale . |
| 17 | IT WAS the winter and I had a proper job at my spiritual home , British Rail . |
| 18 | ‘ If I had a proper job , and a regular salary , it would be different . |
| 19 | I had a proper job there . |
| 20 | My first marriage was coming to an end , but my husband would not leave until I had a permanent job ( so that I could support his children ) . |
| 21 | If I had a nine-to-five job in an office , you could n't just call in . |
| 22 | I had a hard job keeping my face straight . ’ |
| 23 | I had a hard job convincing them otherwise . ’ |
| 24 | I 've a little job for you . |
| 25 | I have a part-time job , but I have been off sick for the last two weeks , because I ca n't keep my mind on it . |
| 26 | I have a part-time job , but I have been off sick for the last two weeks , because I ca n't keep my mind on it . |
| 27 | And now I have a good job , one I like . |
| 28 | I have a good job , a flat , a car , a mortgage , I take at least one holiday abroad every year , I have plenty of friends , life is full of possibilities . |
| 29 | I am thirty-six years old , unmarried , I have a good job , a car , a flat , plenty of friends , I take plenty of holidays abroad , and I 've had plenty of girlfriends in my time . |
| 30 | I have a good job ; |