Example sentences of "had been [verb] the job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it Dominic 's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly ? |
| 2 | Jonadab questioned the waggoner 's lad , who had been given the job of keeping an eye on the horse . |
| 3 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 4 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 5 | His work on Sanday was to be taken up by a teacher who already lived there , and had been doing the job before Mr M was sent there . |
| 6 | Jimmy Lett joined AIB in 1944 , when all investigations were concerned with World War II military aircraft , and he had been doing the job ever since . |
| 7 | I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector . |
| 8 | Gus , a civil engineer , had been finding the job situation pretty difficult and during the period of the Namibia tour and during the World Cup was on the unemployed roster . |
| 9 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |