Example sentences of "get a [adj] job [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Oh I 've got a boring job in an office . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ I 've just got a new job at the solicitors in Yonder . |
5 | " 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 . |
6 | He 's got a big job in the French Foreign Ministry . |
7 | There 've been some big by Shrewsbury over the years , I 'll tell ya there 've been some big clubs here in the past years and it looks very much on the cards again tonight , they have got a massive job on their hands now Blackburn to come back into this . |
8 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |
9 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
10 | The father moved in and I got a full-time job in another engineering company . |
11 | But the ‘ big apple ’ had no appeal to Sam , although he got a temporary job in the ‘ rag trade ’ . |
12 | In the summer of 1944 Burgess got a temporary job in the press department of the Foreign Office . |
13 | Then when I 'd proved I could do that really well , horrible and moronic as it was , I let myself off and got a better job nearer my heart 's desire . " |
14 | When I left in here at the when the receivers come in I got a wee job in Centre , up the town , and I had , I could have got a job in a hosiery in but I did n't fancy travelling down there , so I took that wee job up there . |
15 | He had said he would give up freelancing and get a regular job on a trade magazine or something . |
16 | The femininity of Woman with its emphasis on the role of wife and mother , is vastly different from that of Cosmopolitan , where the feminine woman is encouraged to be adventurous in catching the most sexually desirable man , retaining him for as long as he is interesting , and getting a super job into the bargain . |
17 | They are distracted by the glamour and excitement of drugs and gangs ; they get little discipline at home ; they fail to connect getting a good job with finishing high school . |
18 | You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter . |
19 | Oh yes , I 'd never get a professional job on that heavy cloth and all the so at some point that 'll . |
20 | ‘ Well , film work 's very precarious , of course — so I thought I 'd better get a steady job for a bit , especially when my money ran out . ’ |
21 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
22 | But I know of several people who having been in full-time Christian work have been prepared to get a secular job for a time , until the new church was able to support them . |
23 | It was hard for an English girl to get a secretarial job in New York these days — she had been lucky in getting her work permit before the restrictions were so stringent — but maybe one day the conditions would change and there would be more work permits available . |