Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 2 | If we , the public , see ‘ profession ’ as more trustworthy than ‘ trade ’ , we help to institutionalise trust-worthiness as part of the licence we accord to those who set up as experts . |
| 3 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 4 | He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 . |
| 5 | On his return to Britain , he set up as a portrait painter in both London and Edinburgh , purveying the Grand Manner to all buyers , but even then it was a restrained baroque , tempered by Ramsay 's own unmelodramatic personality . |
| 6 | The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 . |
| 7 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 8 | After six months as a house surgeon at Essex County Hospital , Colchester , he set up as a country doctor in the New Forest , his amusing recollections of which appeared in St. Bartholomew 's Hospital Journal ( 1933–5 ) . |
| 9 | He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 . |
| 10 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
| 11 | Nick Hern has exchanged contracts with Random House for the acquisition of Nick Hern Books , the theatre list he set up as a part of Walker Books in 1988 which joined Random House in 1990 . |
| 12 | Faldo savages the press for his treatment at Muirfield , where he set out as one of the hottest favourites in Open history . |