Example sentences of "[vb base] do a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine doing a shitty job like that ! ’ |
| 2 | You must tackle a warren as though you intend to do a good job at it ; there 's precious little point or pleasure in dabbling with it for that way you achieve very little . |
| 3 | Now it wo n't cure all the problems I 'm pretending that it will , but if we were to have proper seats , proper microphones , electronic voting I believe that it would show symbolically that the House of Commons was prepared to modernize itself and start doing a proper job in our democracy rather than the farce and the theatre which frankly turns so many people off in modern Britain . |
| 4 | Steve Mclaren came back in , back back in I think did a good job , Mickey Lewis tackles and , and everything there , Les is a good pass the ball so , the three of them in there , er tomorrow night , should be able to pass the ball around . |
| 5 | A lot of employment there , and important to the local economy and we 've managed to take some important initiatives in terms of helping the pensioners in the city , crime prevention , and other issues , so we think we 've done a reasonable job . |
| 6 | You 've done a terrific job . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're not snooty and they take us down the pub for a drink if we 've done a good job . ’ |
| 8 | It 's the likes o' them should be at those meetin 's , an' if your people manages ter convert just a couple o' drunkards each time then they 've done a good job . |
| 9 | " You 've done a good job , " Lee said quickly , recognizing the woman 's insecurity . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've done a good job , Bourne . ’ |
| 11 | And if we put a little bit more effort into specifying requirements more tightly , then there 'd be less argument at the end of the day as to whether we 've done a good job or a bad job . |
| 12 | Seems you 've done a good job with our Crilly . ’ |
| 13 | but if you think about it , if you 've done a good job , you 've done a good presentation , done a good fact find and they buy , then they should be very happy at that moment in time and er it was stupid because that is the right time to actually ask |
| 14 | You 've done a good job there ! |
| 15 | Mark reckons they 've done a good job on the water have they ? |
| 16 | Mm you 've done a good job there if you do n't lose it again |
| 17 | So Christopher said yes , so he said well he said , he said Mark said well we 've done a good job this afternoon so I thought that was nice of him |
| 18 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 19 | She said er did she go to your mum , Oh you 've done a good job and |
| 20 | ‘ You 've done a nice job here . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But they 've done a great job . |
| 22 | Young looked at Burton on the set and said to the make-up man , ‘ You 've done a great job . ’ |
| 23 | You 've done a great job on the interiors . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I think you 've done a great job here . |
| 25 | Whereas I mean , , if you sort of give the criticism first and say the wrong area is that , and then finish it off with the praise , they know where they stand , and when you come up to them and say you 've done a superb job , they 're not just sitting back , thinking oh yes , what 's coming next . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've done a splendid job on that window , lass ; I 've never seen it look so bonny . |
| 27 | You 've done a fine job over here , ’ he said , omnisciently , with the air of a superior conferring praise on a subordinate . |
| 28 | You 've done a fine job . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've done a fine job here . |
| 30 | Well , I , I think Mr Chairman , they 've done a fair job in there . |