Example sentences of "had a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't had a job for a year now . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have had a job , ’ said Simon . |
| 3 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 4 | Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff , he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in ; Mike Collins from Chesterfield says he 's not had a job for 11 years , has to pay for all sorts of things , he wants some action from Labour on long-term unemployment … ’ |
| 5 | I 've had a job now for about a month . |
| 6 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 7 | As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes . |
| 8 | She did not tell them she had never had a job , had been supported by a husband she had left . |
| 9 | Since giving up playing the piano in the Soho bar , he had had a job as a receptionist and switchboard operator in a hospice in Kilburn . |
| 10 | Training is particularly important to the young who 've never had a job . |
| 11 | Some had never had a job because they 'd looked after their mams and dads . |
| 12 | I have n't had a job since I left university . |
| 13 | Similarly , because the IfS considers the number of weeks a person has been without work since their previous job , those who have never had a job are also excluded . |
| 14 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
| 15 | ‘ I was never less than fifty feet from the wall and at that distance , with a small pistol in the dark they 'd have had a job to hit a double-decker bus . ’ |
| 16 | What prompted the submission of thi the motion is the growing feeling of disaffection and desertion among the unemployed , particularly the union unemployed in this country , who many never have had a job . |
| 17 | Young people three , four years out of college and have never had a job . |
| 18 | I think Paul Reaney would have had a job settling in to the defence last year . |
| 19 | Have you ever had a job ? |
| 20 | Have you ever had a job ? |
| 21 | He said , nearly 40pc ( 518 ) of young people on the dole in Darlington had not had a job for over half a year and one sixth ( 217 ) had not worked for over a year . |
| 22 | Mr Smith said it was ‘ appalling ’ that many 18- to 24-year-olds had never had a job . |
| 23 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 24 | He has n't had a job for ages has he ? |
| 25 | He must have had a job . |