Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] job " in BNC.
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1 | We 've nurtured different varieties , each designed to do a particular job perfectly . |
2 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
3 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
4 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
5 | He said he 'd done a wonderful job in very difficult circumstances . |
6 | Mr Ensoll , district head postmaster for Darlington , recalled this week how he came to bypass an MI5-type job in favour of the Post Office . |
7 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
8 | That 's what I said first , I said ooh they 'd had a terrible job ! |
9 | Hope fed her nosiness and kept her plodding beside Midnight , who 'd had an awkward job swinging the box on to his shoulder . |
10 | But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs . |
11 | To my surprise , she 'd taken a regular job selling frames and contact lenses and had stuck it and was boss of the shop . |
12 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
13 | I got offered a part-time job in a bakery at the weekends , and he said he 'd look after the kids , but he never did , so I could n't do it . |
14 | Indeed , as Fairbairns points out , both in this article and in her novel Benefits , when a houseworker fails to carry out her domestic duties ‘ properly ’ someone else ( usually another woman ) is brought in by the state and paid to do the identical job . |
15 | One of the customs officers decided to do a thorough job on Clare 's luggage . |
16 | He decided to take a salaried job in a posh West End gallery and within a year had landed the directorship of the Marlborough Gallery 's contemporary art venture , the New London Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
17 | But there was all the experience and help of Ann Scott Jones who somehow managed to make the lonely job of the Usherette/Narrator come to life , and the magic of Hildegarde Bechtler , the designer , turning the Tron into a real ‘ Forties cinema with help from the hardpressed stage manager , Gibby , and somebody 's wonderful collection of cinema architecture bric-a-brac and memorabilia . |
18 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
19 | It 's a cliché to say that the judge had a difficult task but indeed he did have an unenviable job . |
20 | A further 8 per cent had received an acceptable job offer and would be commencing work shortly after the end of the course . |
21 | Harold Hobson , the chairman of the Central Electricity Board ( who had expected the top job in the new organisation himself ) , pointedly refused to work as Citrine 's deputy and resigned from the CEB prematurely . |
22 | Barton assured him warmly that Angela had done a great job and he was now confident of getting planning permission on the vast site he had wanted . |
23 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
24 | A midwife with 25 years experience , she thought she had done a good job — then she discovered the truth . |
25 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | He thought he had done a good job . |
28 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
29 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
30 | ‘ We felt Terry Chaplin had done a good job over two years and that the continuity was reflected in your activities , ’ she said . |