Example sentences of "[verb] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | — What d' you need a job for anyway ? — You know I want one . |
| 2 | Why on earth did she need a job ? |
| 3 | If individuals do not need a job or title or status to know who they are ( e.g. in older societies ) , then the energy they put into their job or career may seem slight to those in the new societies . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll need a job over there . |
| 5 | I do need a job old boy . |
| 6 | The third had said she could n't possibly ‘ touch a job where the mother was at home ’ , while the fourth had merely gazed superciliously around the apartment , before announcing that it was ‘ not up to my standards ’ . |
| 7 | She was convinced her 18-year-old son 's pop dreams would come to nothing and pressured him to accept a job offer from a bank . |
| 8 | But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year . |
| 9 | One businessman from Chicago , in Budapest for three years , describes his ‘ unbelievable luck ’ in landing a job there . |
| 10 | Charles 's success in landing a job provoked in Robyn the first twinge of jealousy , the first spasm of pique , to mar their relationship . |
| 11 | With the employment situation for school-leavers as it is , she reckoned her chances of landing a job were slim . |
| 12 | Stuart , 26 , from Lanarkshire , emigrated with his wife and children after landing a job as a mineworker , in Witbank , 95 miles from Johannesburg . |
| 13 | His CV reads like the script for a journalist 's dream sequence — frustrated writer trains with provincial newspaper before landing a job in the brewing industry and breaking through as an author . |
| 14 | Once out of the Army , John Moynihan , after a couple of false starts , began his career in journalism , before long landing a job with the Evening Standard on their ‘ In London Last Night ’ column . |
| 15 | Bridget Stokes had pinned her hopes on landing a job delivering letters in Darlington . |
| 16 | I would enjoy a job where I would have to talk , persuade or advise people |
| 17 | Keeping a job file |
| 18 | For while she was to some degree confused at that precise moment about the importance of keeping a job that paid well , she knew , whatever else was hazy , that she was very much in love with him . |
| 19 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that most applicants are anxious to secure a job or move up the career ladder , the process is really two-way . |
| 21 | It is an exclusion from fundamental rights of citizenship — to walk the streets without harassment , to secure a job without discrimination , to express a cultural identity without stigma , to have a share in the exercise of political power . |
| 22 | He or she will hope to secure a job that involves the initiation of policies from the party 's programme . |
| 23 | — I want a job Duncan . |
| 24 | If you want a job just run upstairs and say McCloy to Mr Burden . |
| 25 | ‘ Want a job here in the Admiralty , do you ? |
| 26 | My father 's sort of said to me that if I want a job afterwards , and if I want a decent job and a job with a future , it 's got to be on the engineering side of the works . |
| 27 | ‘ Want a job in PR , Mrs Cellini ? ’ |
| 28 | The said well , you know , if you want a job we 'll find you something and erm . |
| 29 | I want a job done and I want it done properly . |
| 30 | of those who want a job can find one . |