Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , after much jockeying and a few power lunches ( although all three contestants for the top spot — McDonald , Stewart , and Somerville — deny this ) Trevor has got the top job and a salary reckoned close to £125,000 a year . |
| 2 | But he has got the top job . |
| 3 | It had to be done , and he had known it would not be popular , but he added : ‘ Anyone who becomes Chancellor in order to be popular has chosen the wrong job . ’ |
| 4 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 5 | But if you are a strongly goal-orientated individual who enjoys solitary intellectual pursuits , you may have found the perfect job . |
| 6 | The Chairman , for example , was one of no fewer than five Irish Americans to have held the top job in UM . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sometimes I 've done the odd job for la parallèle , ’ he said simply , as though it explained everything . |
| 9 | The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know . |
| 10 | It 's too early for me right now — besides I 've got the best job in the world . |
| 11 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 12 | And then he had jeopardized the whole job by landing himself inside . |
| 13 | As chairman of the British Railways Board ( 1963–5 ) , Beeching had made his reputation in the public sector by the impressive way he had tackled the thankless job of modernizing the outdated rail network . |
| 14 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 15 | The big question is whether they have mastered the complicated job of putting bugs from a laboratory inside a useful battlefield weapon . |