Which preposition to use with jobbed
Some said that Sisyphus had done his job of porterage long enough; Tantalus would be dying of thirst, if he were not relieved; the drag must be put at last on wretched Ixion's wheel.
" "I suppose you wouldn' like me to take over the job for two or three days?" "You? Crippled!
" "Don't throw over, Jimmie, what my getting you out of it to a decent job in a department store has begun to do for you.
[Illustration: "HE FOUND THE DWARF ASLEEP ON A BENCH."] "One day the Giant put up a job on the Dwarf that afterwards got them both into serious trouble.
Suppose you tell me about Montreal and your job at the store?" She roused herself and began to talk.
Look at me now-shoved into a job as first officer, with my full share of all we can lay hands on.
" "Kemp must be thanking his lucky stars he wasn't in that Riversbrook job with Fred Birchill," said Rolfe, "for they usually work together.
On one occasion, a man who was employed to catch the sheep, was one of those shiftless, good-natured, lazy fellows, to be found in almost every neighborhood, who prefer smoking and telling stories in bar-rooms to regular work, and who greatly prefer odd jobs to consecutive labor.
" "You put up a job like that on me?"
When a fellow has the hard luck to bust cold the superintendent allows him all his time, thereafter, to go home and look up a more suitable job than one in the Navy.
Latin America is an immense job by itself, and we have some real responsibility there; a sort of Christian Monroe Doctrine.
And then they shirk the job from dawn to dark.
Old Johnston had finished the job before the President (Olympia noticed that all Southerners dwelt upon this title with complacent insistence) could reach the field.
"There's never a job about which you can't put those questions.
The temptation came to me, and I did the job without thinking what it would mean to you.
They'll make a better job out of you than ever I can.
The sailors had been doing various odd jobs around the house on Sundays ever since they came, but had not worked openly until one particular Sunday in May.
" "Have some breakfast, won't youdinner, I mean?" "I put that job through at the Road House.
If you're not in a main hurry, an' 'll give me time, I'll do the heavy work o' this job after six o'clock o' the summer nights, with Sandy to help me, and I'll charge you no more than a journeyman's wages by the hour.
The play (a War-drama) gave the Babe a fine hunger, but the Commissionaire (apparently a Major-General) who does odd jobs outside the Blitz took exception to him.
I'm likely to lose my job over this and so are you if you take part in it.
And now 'e's lost his job along of Master Colin and Miss Anne.
Grace and Skeets were given little odd jobs during the very few hours of their insistent helping.
His mother sent for him, and" "You lie," she broke in fiercely; "it's a put up job between you two.
A long line of men moved about at various jobs behind the rampart of sandbags; they were cheerfully ready to shoot, but very few of them were actually in the posture of shooting.