Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun] as " 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 | He became the most high-profile newscaster in Britain when he made his debut as the programme 's anchorman . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Back in Ireland , he made his name as a Munster and UCC wing or centre in the late Sixties and early Seventies . |
| 7 | But Jones decided to turn down his old Wimbledon club , where he made his name as one of the Crazy Gang . |
| 8 | There he made his name as a cricketer , and in particular , as a fast bowler . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He made his living as a photographer ( or one who retouched photographs ) . |
| 13 | On his return to London he made his living as a novelist and freelance journalist ; between 1886 and 1889 he published ten novels . |
| 14 | By now he made his living as a schoolmaster , in Loose and Maidstone . |
| 15 | He stammered his thanks as the Western sprang to life on the screen and Sweetheart slipped from her seat in a waft of perfume . |
| 16 | He lowered his head as the charged was read to him , that he murdered Nicola Jane Yates . |
| 17 | In due course he succeeded his father as king in Egypt , marrying his sister Isis . |
| 18 | He succeeded his father as baronet in 1792 , and lived at Brompton Hall , between Pickering and Scarborough , throughout his life . |
| 19 | He succeeded his father as a JP for Cheshire in 1619 and served on the bench until his removal , as part of a purge by George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , on 26 October 1626 . |
| 20 | By the late tenth century he was venerated as St Kenelm , and an eleventh-century Life claimed that he succeeded his father as a child but was murdered by Cwenthryth . |
| 21 | King Hussein ibn Talal , of the Hashemite dynasty , has played the major role in Jordanian politics since he succeeded his father as King in 1952 . |
| 22 | He resigned earlier this month in a letter to his local constituency party in Chester , where he succeeded his father as president in 1977 . |
| 23 | In the late seventeenth century he came to India , gained a prominent post in the Imperial army and married into the Mughal aristocracy ; a few years later he succeeded his father-in-law as Nawab ( Governor ) of Oudh . |
| 24 | He fluttered his fingers as if he 'd picked up something hot . |
| 25 | He respected her talent as a model , he said , and would she tell him where she was performing ? |
| 26 | No doubt it was easier to reform it with Dzerzhihsky nut of Moscow , although he retained his post as head . |
| 27 | I got the impression he regarded his editorship as the high point of his life . |
| 28 | He caught his breath as the black fringes of her lashes swept upwards and the golden eyes met his . |
| 29 | There are other elements in Campbell 's thought : he seems to think that the most perspicuous model of the mind to employ in understanding human knowledge sees the mind as embodying a structured hierarchy of functionally characterized capacities , each of which works in a way analogous to natural selection ; and he defends his view as part of a ( reductive ) explanation of how the capacities comprising human rationality have evolved . |
| 30 | He changed his position as we walked so that he could be closer to me . |