Example sentences of "he made [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 2 | He made his reputation as a speaker almost at once . |
| 3 | Alan actually began with Palace as an amateur , after travelling across London upon hearing that trials were being held at Selhurst Park , and he made his debut as a 17-year-old in March 1962 . |
| 4 | If he seems to have had a foot in the door for an awfully long time then that is probably because he made his debut as an 18–year-old during the Dermot Reeve era . |
| 5 | He became the most high-profile newscaster in Britain when he made his debut as the programme 's anchorman . |
| 6 | Back in Ireland , he made his name as a Munster and UCC wing or centre in the late Sixties and early Seventies . |
| 7 | There he made his name as a cricketer , and in particular , as a fast bowler . |
| 8 | Popular in Reykjavik , where he made his name as a dynamic and uncompromising mayor , he narrowly defeated the more mild-mannered Thorsteinn Pálsson , the party chair since 1983 and Prime Minister in 1987-88 . |
| 9 | He made his living as a lithographer and by painting pictures of ships for naval officers , and had an arrangement with Griffin 's Bookshop in Portsmouth to take orders for his work , and the firm printed two volumes of The Royal Navy in a Series of Illustrations . |
| 10 | While at the University of Chicago ( where he met Ulu Grosbard ) , he made his living as a night janitor , hotel desk clerk and delivery truck driver . |
| 11 | He made his living as a photographer ( or one who retouched photographs ) . |
| 12 | On his return to London he made his living as a novelist and freelance journalist ; between 1886 and 1889 he published ten novels . |
| 13 | By now he made his living as a schoolmaster , in Loose and Maidstone . |