Example sentences of "[pers pn] set up as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
8 | 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 . |