Example sentences of "doing a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 2 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
| 3 | Thus , as part of a cost-cutting exercise , an employer may simply ask some of the existing employees doing a job to absorb the work of colleagues who are then no longer required and are consequently made redundant . |
| 4 | ‘ You have been doing a job . |
| 5 | It wo n't be like doing a job . |
| 6 | Let us assume that you are a woman of medium height , doing a job like housework , which requires a moderate amount of physical activity , and that you are about one stone overweight and just about to embark on trying to lose it . |
| 7 | I have been criticised for doing a job that is irrelevant in a society in which so many are struggling . |
| 8 | When it comes to going in , doing a job and getting out , they 're just like the SAS . ’ |
| 9 | It was odd , Lucinda thought , that men should be doing a job more suited to women , but this was a real ship , was n't it , on which , if Molly was to be believed , women had yet to establish themselves . |
| 10 | But I reckon that 's tiring myself , well , not tiring , it 's just as hard as doing a job — I do n't care what any man says … |
| 11 | It provides them with an opportunity to spend a short period of time , usually two or three weeks , at work , doing a job , but also asking questions and canvassing a range of opinions on a variety of issues . |
| 12 | First , you 're doing a job that 's considered important ; second , it would n't help the Department all that much . |
| 13 | He 's doing a job for you , just like he has before ; but something 's different . |
| 14 | Now what if it 's Re we 're doing a job for Regional Railways ? |
| 15 | He is doing a job in your office as an assistant section engineer at the moment . |
| 16 | They charge to overheads if they were n't doing a job . |
| 17 | I will say , Oh I 'm doing a job at flats . |
| 18 | ‘ Although I 've never thought about it if I was doing a job down here . ’ |
| 19 | Although we were volunteers , doing a job we liked , we were fully trained and experienced customs officers who were also operating sea going vessels in a competent manner , taking great pride in doing so . |
| 20 | Any person who is doing a job and is not providing his own support needs supporting . |
| 21 | They were doing a job not totally agreeable to them , but they were doing it professionally . |
| 22 | Before he 'd interfered in her life she had been part of a team , doing a job that she enjoyed well . |
| 23 | Two days before the sack of Rome , I was doing a job on a Jewish fortune-teller working the Appian Way , and — ’ |
| 24 | The Embalmer therefore , acquires an attitude towards his job of complete satisfaction — satisfaction that he is doing a job and that job is well worth doing . |
| 25 | Doing a job like this , you get imaginative . |
| 26 | If you like , I 've been doing a job which I should n't be doing . |
| 27 | ‘ They are supposed to be doing a job of work to house people not making residents ’ lives a misery . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 30 | about , no , no it 's only about a fortnight ago , I was on site doing a job and I come out and as far as you know what you call courtesy dial in a card , so that you do n't cut anybody off , you can dial it and everybody says oh what 's going off , you know , you can courtesy dial it , when we 've finished it shuts that channel down |