Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] life as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Wingfield Castle ’ was built in Hartlepool in 1934 and spent its working life as the Hull-New Holland ferry , or visit the HMS Trincomalee , the oldest British warship afloat , moored in the new Hartlepool Marina development . |
| 2 | In 1971 , the farce one could hardly call an education ended , and he began his working life as a marine labourer in Nanjing Port . |
| 3 | David Davies , born in Llandinam ( midway between Llanidloes and Newtown ) in 1818 , began his working life as a sawyer , which seems to have little relevance to civil engineering but was responsible for his excellent local reputation prior to his first engineering contract . |
| 4 | The first local man who can be described as a manufacturer was Thomas Dunkley , who was born in 1802 and who began his working life as a shoemaker ; in 1851 William Dunkley was employing fifty men and twenty women and concentrating on a range of cheaper shoes . |
| 5 | Not an academic himself , Braverman began his working life as an apprentice coppersmith and spent much of the rest of it in socialist journalism and in publishing . |
| 6 | My paternal grandfather started his working life as a water carrier — selling water house to house ; by the time I arrived my father 's family had ‘ made it ’ . |
| 7 | Now 41 , Mr Parry started his working life as a GPO technician but was soon attracted to acting . |
| 8 | Considering that he started his adult life as a wine and spirits salesman , he had certainly learnt the art of showmanship : whatever the fluctuating state of the theatre , he always managed to pay an enormous wage bill for his large casts . |