Example sentences of "[vb infin] 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 | I would enjoy a job where I would have to talk , persuade or advise people |
| 7 | Training schemes do not guarantee a job , but they do provide necessary skills . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That will have to change if I do n't land a job with much the same salary , and jobs like that do n't exactly grow on trees , you know , particularly when you 're over fifty . ’ |
| 9 | I reckon I could do a job like that . |
| 10 | Many women resist swapping jobs because they know they could do a job a lot better or quicker themselves , or because they are frightened of ‘ having a go ’ at traditional male jobs . |
| 11 | A losing attitude says , ‘ What difference does it make if I do n't do a job well ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Now we know they can go in and do a job . |
| 13 | I do n't think he minded , for once he said to me , ‘ You ca n't do a job like mine unless you 're fascinated by it ’ , and I was n't . |
| 14 | And it became difficult , so in the end , rather than committing myself when people phoned up saying can you come and do a job for me , rather than do it badly and not being there and being unreliable I 'd say : ‘ No . |
| 15 | Workers were only used people who could actually work , if people ca n't do a job then |
| 16 | I see education as far more than just training you to go out and do a job , and I think the whole learning process , whatever you 're learning , matures you into being capable of taking responsibilities and learning other things , and I think arts subjects do that just as well as science subjects . |
| 17 | Firstly you must select quotations carefully ; they must do a job efficiently . |
| 18 | and wondering how we can do a job for two thousand four hundred and fifty , when according to the experts in the field it was gon na cost fourteen and a half thousand pounds . |
| 19 | he 'll maybe do a job by , by putting |
| 20 | May added : ‘ Gill is a good player and will do a job for me until the end of the season . |
| 21 | ‘ He needs to get fit and to improve his sharpness but it 's up to him to show that he can do a job for us , ’ said Flynn . |
| 22 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 23 | before that , maybe when the scrapers or whatnot , I thought I 'd do a job here I 'll wash blankets |
| 24 | ‘ Not once did they finish a job properly . |
| 25 | But having said that I ca n't see a job where you can just kind of swan in and you know and think about a million different things in one day or whatever . |
| 26 | I gain a sense of achievement knowing I can see a job through to the end . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it did n't provide a job for you , ’ he said , relieved , and looked round for Amanda , who had used the surface tension of the moment to walk away . |
| 28 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |
| 29 | Obviously with this sort of music the ideas are n't going to be : ‘ Yes , my girlfriend is a nurse and I would like a job in the pit ’ . |
| 30 | Single parents off the dole queue have the same thwarted desire for waged work as their married sisters — a Woman 's Realm survey in the seventies found that 70 per cent of mothers full time at home would like a job , but had none because of the lack of childcare facilities . |