Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the job [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 2 | He offered me the job on the spot . |
| 3 | When Gilroy explained the commercial necessities of having to recast , and offered him the job of understudy and assistant stage manager , he stormed out of the theatre in a rage . |
| 4 | The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools . |
| 5 | When I was eighteen she gave me the job of housekeeper in the big cottage she kept at Streatlam to entertain her friends coming to swim in the pool and play tennis . |