Example sentences of "have got a [adj] job " in BNC.

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1 Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ .
2 The manager has got a difficult job .
3 I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’
4 I 've got a good job and , although I 'm not going out with anybody right now , I have a lot of close friends .
5 ‘ I have to start rehearsal on Monday , I 've got a new job to go back to . ’
6 ‘ Oh I 've got a boring job in an office .
7 I usually say ‘ I 'm a wife and a mother and I 've got a part-time job ’ .
8 I 've got a better job . ’
9 I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’
10 ‘ Seems to me you 've got a man-sized job on , judging by that lot . ’
11 In her famed speech on election night 1987 , as she rallied her party troops on the steps of Party Headquarters not to rest on their laurels but to continue the fight ( they were to be allowed one night of ‘ marvellous partying ’ but must start back the next day with renewed vigour ) , she announced that ‘ we 've got a big job to do in some of those inner cities … and politically , we 've got to get back in there — we want to win those too ’ .
12 Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’
13 I think she 's I think she I said Are you gon na vote Conservative like , just cos you 've got a canny job .
14 ‘ But I 've got a little job to do .
15 Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today .
16 Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen .
17 Me dad had got a decent job for them times , you know he , I think he got thirty bob a week which was a lot of money .
18 Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution .
19 He 's got a good job and mine ai n't that bad .
20 No he 's , no he 's got a good job .
21 Although he 's got a good job so Pam said I do n't know why he 's got in that problem .
22 But she 's got a good job .
23 And , and that , cos tha , cos she has n't got her husband anymore , her husband 's got a good job like , getting well into , something like and he 's got , got loads of money !
24 mm , aye , he 's got a good job
25 He 's got a new job working on
26 I got a track suit today , cos he was so cross the other day when she come , but that 's what , they 've got the money , they 've got no , no mortgage , there both work full time , she 's got a brilliant job ai n't she ?
27 Because she 's got a stressful job .
28 Under a Labour chairman who 's who 's got a nice job somewhere else now , I understand .
29 He 's got a big job in the French Foreign Ministry .
30 " Not very late , " Jenny said a little defensively , and added , " Matt 's got a big job on and is going to be very busy , he says .
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