Sentence examples for earned a bob from inspiring English sources
Huntford earned a few bob writing articles for local papers and translating, but says he was fuelled primarily by what Ibsen calls "the life lie" in The Wild Duck.
"He would have picked them up in bazaars, or when people knew he was interested in this sort of thing, they would have brought them to him and earned a few bob".
"You may as well earn a few bob out of the ungrateful tykes," she said sarcastically.
Even if David happens to be off earning a few bob, what of it?
One of her characters is a pill-popping pharmacy assistant; one's a wannabe ballerina forced through poverty to work at a lap-dancing club; and the third is a Ukrainian punk-poet who earns a few bob humiliating masochists while wearing ex-Soviet military garb in his ratty bedroom.
AS an avid dodgeball player, Art Spigel had earned a reputation as an ace in avoidance, a specialist in swerve and a grandmaster in the sweet science of bob and weave.
Neither earned a decision.
