Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] career as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the war had interrupted his career as a merchant , Peto needed to find an alternative outlet for his many talents and interests , and when childhood friend Ervin Marton , a photographer and designer domiciled in France , introduced him to photography , he quickly realised that he had found his true artistic vocation . |
| 2 | A cheerful , boozy chain-smoker , who had started his career as a film editor , Ron had a cough that seemed to rise from the soles of his shoes , and a propensity for laughing hugely at his own , often very filthy , jokes . |
| 3 | Pavlov , 53 , had started his career as a district auditor and had risen through the ranks of the Finance Ministry and the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan ) and State Pricing Committee , being appointed Minister of Finance in 1989 . |
| 4 | The new Public Appointments Unit set up in 1975 to revivify the List was run by Jonathan Charkham , a well-heeled nomad who had begun his career as a barrister , went into industry , and by the late eighties was working for the Bank of England . |
| 5 | He drove past the Ecole Militaire , where his brother had begun his career as a soldier , in that uniform he still remembered so clearly . |
| 6 | The author , himself a captain of artillery in the Regiment of the Canton of Berne , did not , of course , fail to point out that Napoleon had begun his career as an artillery man , a fact which provided a point of departure for comment on the Emperor 's ideas in general . |