Example sentences of "name for himself [prep] " 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 | He ran away to sea at fifteen and made a name for himself as a good , but sadistic , fist fighter . |
| 5 | Samuel Beeton had already begun to make a name for himself as a publisher and editor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Screenwriter Harold Pinter made a name for himself with plays like The Caretaker , in which an ugly , unstated violence was evident in his famous pauses . |
| 9 | Originally from Turangi , in King Country , New Zealand , McIntosh now lives in South Wales , where he has been quietly making a name for himself with his performances for Pontypridd . |
| 10 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 11 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 12 | Wright , a player I 've admired since he made a name for himself at Crystal Palace , was strangely ignored for the European championship finals . |
| 13 | Gould also made a considerable name for himself at home , finally attaining the scientific status he had yearned for as an ornithologist , on or off the field . |
| 14 | That he had taken over Joe the Fish 's businesses and made a name for himself among the villains . |
| 15 | The freshman soon made a name for himself in debates at the Union , which is the historic Cambridge debating society . |
| 16 | A sort of cross between Kurt Cobain and a Fraggle , James has already made a name for himself in the office for dancing around and waving his arms wildly while he talks , not forgetting the regular swishing back of that blond mop . |
| 17 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 18 | Guy Ferris , already making a name for himself in the right circles , made a surprisingly determined play for the younger Miss Fox . |
| 19 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 20 | Charter skipper Oliver Finnegan who runs deep sea trips on board his new boat ‘ Sharon Michele ’ out of Warrenpoint is making quite a name for himself amongst local sea anglers . |