Example sentences of "[vb past] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 2 | With moral backing and further support from his relatives , he soon found a job in the tailoring trade . |
| 3 | ‘ I have an old friend who works for a publisher in New York and I stayed with her for a couple of weeks while I found a job . |
| 4 | Shortly after moving into her apartment she found a job where she was truly in her element . |
| 5 | For every applicant who found a job between 1910 and 1914 , three did not . |
| 6 | Karen found a job with a major travel company after she completed her course . |
| 7 | Neither had " a head for figures " the venture failed within months and my father found a job as a tradesman again . |
| 8 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 9 | He did n't want to leave his friends , so we found a job in the shop for him packing . |
| 10 | Isabelle stayed in London and found a job as a nightclub hostess in Soho , taking monthly trips to the Isle of Man and sneaking gear to him through credibly sealed packets of Twiglets . |
| 11 | While MacIver was on bail , he found a job in the US . |
| 12 | Local youngsters have formed themselves into an action group in Ness and have repaired and redecorated the community hall , sponsored a Job Creation project for further improvements to the kitchen facilities and environs , formed a local band , organised a sponsored clean up , established representation within the Community Association and plan to develop a workshop attached to the hall . |
| 13 | After a year , Jakki considered leaving and secured a job at a tiny radio station just off Australia 's Great Barrier Reef . |
| 14 | Through the influence of his uncle , Austin Pilkington , a director of the Pilkington Glass Company , Horne secured a job with the Triplex Safety Glass Company in 1928 . |
| 15 | I noticed a job ad which ended ‘ an equal opportunity employer : m/f/h ’ . |
| 16 | He obtained a job in the town on a delivery cart , the old-fashioned horse and dray , and memorised Salvation Army doctrine , and verses from the Bible as he drove the cart . |
| 17 | The British electorate — we have rolled forward to Friday — has opted for change and made a job of it , sweeping the Natural Law Party into power . |
| 18 | Wyatt made a job of it and is now Head Warden of the Lake District National Park . |
| 19 | — But Sheila moved down to London with Bob and she got a job no bother . |
| 20 | — You got a job yet ? — Yes . |
| 21 | Then I got a job in a laundry . |
| 22 | By chance , and on the basis of her scientific qualifications , Melville got a job at Swansea University researching doctors ' prescribing habits . |
| 23 | Authorative first crime novel from a woman so obsessed with violent crime that she gave up crime reporting and got a job in the morgue |
| 24 | That 's something else you 'd have to give up if you got a job , is n't it ? |
| 25 | He had followed the accepted paths — got a job , married , started a family — and now he was sick of it . |
| 26 | ‘ I was on the dole for three months and then got a job . |
| 27 | Day 26 ) Got a job today pumping petrol . |
| 28 | That was before we could afford a ‘ better house ’ , before Mum got a job , before we moved to Exeter . |
| 29 | Uncle Bill got a job in a joiner 's shop out Haymarket way and he moved to lodgings in Dalry Road . |
| 30 | Eventually , I got a job as bank clerk in London when the banks went on a recruiting drive in Ireland . |