Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] career as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strauss began his career as an Idealist theologian and New Testament scholar in the Tübingen mould , but by the end of his life had abandoned Christian faith altogether . |
| 2 | Lewis E Waterman began his career as an insurance salesman in New York . |
| 3 | DAVE HILL began his career as a contributor to the NME in 1981 , moving swiftly on to become music editor at London 's City Limits listings magazine . |
| 4 | It 's not surprising that Koons began his career as a salesman , selling memberships for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the late Seventies , following a stint of art school in Baltimore and a relatively nondescript youth in a small Pennsylvania town , where he listened to Led Zeppelin and ‘ chased after women ’ . |
| 5 | Clifford Ross began his career as an Abstract Expressionist but has , over the years , found notions of landscape surfacing in his work . |
| 6 | Paul Hinshelwood began his career as a striker , but in November 1976 undertook a new role as a full-back in a remodelled Palace defence . |
| 7 | The direction the English novel was to take in the post-war era was the subject of much discussion in the late 1950s when Christine Brooke-Rose began her career as a novelist . |
| 8 | Where both are university teachers , Federman began his career as a critic with a study of Samuel Beckett , Journey to Chaos ( 1965 ) , which played a crucial role in the formation of his attitude towards modern fiction . |
| 9 | Macdonell began his career as an author in 1927 by writing detective stories , sometimes under the pseudonyms of Neil Gordon or John Cameron . |
| 10 | Although , as we have seen ( p. 31 ) , it was more than likely a joint production of leading London nurserymen , they undoubtedly recognised Miller 's ability and , with their support , Miller began his career as a horticultural writer . |
| 11 | Baron of Buchlyvie continued its career as a breeding stallion and show horse . |
| 12 | Underwood launched his career as a Lion perfectly when Carling , Andrew , Scott Gibbs who had a blinder and Hastings gave him some room . |
| 13 | Porlier found his career as a guerrilla general rewarded by posting to a provincial garrison . |
| 14 | Murphy began his career as an apprentice with Vincent O'Brien 's younger brother Phonsie before he became stable jockey for top Irish trainer Paddy Mullins . |