Example sentences of "for himself as " in BNC.

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1	Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport .
2	One day he would like to make a name for himself as a public trainer — but that is some way in the future .
3	Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for .
4	Abel , who has a CAD/CAM background , worked for himself as Procon Systems Inc .
5	Abel , who 's apparently got a CAD/CAM background , worked for himself as Procon Systems Inc .
6	He ran away to sea at fifteen and made a name for himself as a good , but sadistic , fist fighter .
7	Samuel Beeton had already begun to make a name for himself as a publisher and editor .
8	He scraped through the Eton of Dr Edmond Warre [ q.v. ] , under the particular care of Arthur Benson [ q.v. ] , his housemaster , without distinction , but in 1902 gained a first class in modern history at Balliol College , Oxford , where he also made a reputation for himself as a roof-climber , despite his blindness .
9	Picasso had already acquired a considerable reputation for himself as an original and independent figure .
10	He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian .
11	Taken along with his restrained reaction to the repression of the pro-democracy movement in China itself [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , his attitude gave rise to some suggestions that he saw a role for himself as a potential mediator in the Hong Kong issue .
12	George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process .

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