Example sentences of "job for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The House of the Dead he makes us feel that the grim actualities of prison life do this job for him . |
| 2 | Bart ( anagram : Brat ) , a kid with a spiky flat-top , is perpetually in trouble : he enjoys taking snapshots of his own butt , and loses his dad 's job for him . |
| 3 | If he can not face another five years of leading the Liberal Democrats nowhere , perhaps MI6 can find a job for him . |
| 4 | ‘ Blinkers did the job for him . |
| 5 | Benichou likes to use his head if the fists wo n't do the job for him , and the atmosphere is definitely hostile down here in the South of France — but Scouser Hoko is totally unmoved . |
| 6 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan also acknowledged that headhunters will try quite naturally to seduce good people away from such companies as his own ; but , he maintained , headhunters overall did a good job for him and he was not frightened that they might take his staff . |
| 7 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 8 | ‘ John asked me to do a job for him first . ’ |
| 9 | If he did finally decide , after all , this was n't the job for him , that snide comment should go some way to ensure that Lorrimer stood no chance of succeeding him as Director of Hoggatt 's . |
| 10 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 11 | And then he had a job , they had a job for him you know , and of course I he did n't want to leave me , Well I said , You can go , I said , it 's alright if I 'm going to sell , I said , that would be alright . |
| 12 | If Ferdinand will co-operate , perhaps there will be a better job for him at the brewery . |
| 13 | The person who had eavesdropped on the proposed intrigue performed Stratton 's job for him ; stole the jewel ; slid thereafter into the background ; and disposed at leisure of the superfluous pearls and the petty cash . |
| 14 | He was standing on top of one of the crush barriers by the look of it and when the goal went in he either jumped or the surge forward did the job for him and he defied gravity for a while . |
| 15 | I know how good he is , but it will be some pressure cauldron next Wednesday evening at Windsor and I think Jack will go with the players who have done the job for him before , and once this trial is over and we have qualified : - ) he will experiment and experiment and experiment to his hearts content . |
| 16 | Might find a job for him some time you see . |
| 17 | My people at the PFA feel that until the League get together and show there is a practical job for me to do , they do n't see why they should let me go . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When I argued , he said if I lost my licence he would find another job for me in the organisation . ’ |
| 19 | Anyway , I thought , Liza would do my job for me . |
| 20 | Lady Diana 's engagement to Prince Charles really put Althorp on the map , and it became a full-time job for me . |
| 21 | ‘ I just pin the papers up in the dressing-room and it does my job for me . |
| 22 | So maybe Newman can go in my place , do the job for me . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The implication is that I have had to leave as there was no job for me after this restructure . |
| 25 | He has a job for me , neh ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Well … you have a job for me , I understand . |
| 27 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 28 | So I wrote him a letter , told him I 'm here , I ca n't get a job , so he managed to get a job for me . |
| 29 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |