(1) "Can you imagine the shock of leaving your family home and suddenly becoming a dogsbody in your mother-in-law's house?"
(2) They weren't very good and lost the contract but Carter stayed on as an administrative dogsbody and personal assistant.
(3) But, more importantly, he also got a temporary post as "a dogsbody" at the Guardian.
(4) Wood, who was described by his defence barrister as a “dogsbody”, gave up on the heist during the gang’s second attempt at breaking in, for fear of getting caught, his trial at Woolwich crown court heard.
Handyman
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(1) An offer of help from handyman service The_Multiman – "#riotcleanup if you have a shop or home that has been affected my handymen will volunteer in our spare time to help with any repairs!
(2) But there are also smaller changes, which cost the local authority little but can have a big impact in terms of how secure care leavers feel, such as a visit from a handyman when they move into their own home, to help them put up curtain poles and other such tasks – typically the role of a parent.
(3) In May an Israeli employment court awarded compensation to a former handyman in the prime minister’s home, accepting the worker’s claims of abusive terms of employment by Sara Netanyahu.
(4) His gift of writing supple, salty dialogue for working-class characters was similarly displayed in Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt (1976-77), a series developed from his own single play and starring Bill Maynard as the inept handyman with the thumbs-up catchphrase "Magic!"
(5) Sidney Poitier blazed a trail in the 60s for Lilies of the Field , winning best actor for his role as a handyman helping a group of nuns build a chapel in the desert.
(6) He now works as a handyman for the council, and his wife, Omkeltoum, is expecting another child.
(7) Angel Figueroa, 46, a Guatemalan former handyman, boasted of knowing Los Angeles “like the palm of my hand” but feared he would never see it or his children again.
(8) Thoreau was 27 when he took up residence in the cabin by Walden Pond; he had graduated from Harvard 19th in his class, tried teaching, helped his father in the family pencil business, did local odd jobs for a dollar a day, lived with the Emersons for two years as handyman and gardener, left Long Island after a brief spell of tutoring and testing the literary market, and, despite Emerson's sponsorship and a few poems and essays in the Transcendentalist quarterly The Dial, had made no mark.
(9) Services offered include housekeeping, transportation, yard care, and handyman services.
(10) On leaving school he took a job as a handyman in a London hotel, spending his evenings in the House of Commons watching late-night debates from the public gallery.
(11) Casey Affleck won best actor for his portray of a grieving handyman in Manchester by the Sea, seeing off Denzel Washington, who had been tipped for a third Oscar for Fences.
(12) Duque now works as a handyman and his wife assists him.
(13) My plan was to live in a bread delivery van that I’d converted and offer people handyman services in return for payment in kind.
(14) Carlos, a self-employed handyman, reacted to his son's death by setting fire to himself inside a van, suffering severe burns.
(15) Kelly Frank, who worked as a handyman on the ranch, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail.