Example sentences of "make [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 2 | Ironically , 25-year-old Josephine had made it as a TV star when Craig was a pipe layer dreaming of fame . |
| 3 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 4 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 5 | They said a quality newspaper could never make it as a tabloid , and the struggle is now on |
| 6 | Spanning 50 years of his life , Sinatra begins with the frustrations of his early years in the 1920s and 30s , when he was told he had no talent and would never make it as a professional singer . |
| 7 | Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll never make it as an American , that 's for sure , ’ Cora-Beth said as she tucked her arm through Harry 's . |
| 9 | How Seymour ever made it as a film star is beyond me . |
| 10 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 11 | But you see if you make it as a , a division it makes it easier . |
| 12 | Mike Harding has never been able to afford to buy one of his own clocks , now he 's making one as a retirement present to himself : a memento to a clock firm which could beat the Swiss — but could n't beat the recession . |
| 13 | Dean was making it as a star before Hopper was . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's got every chance of making it as a player . ’ |
| 15 | On the other hand , if you 're making something the world wants , by making it as the lowest cost supplier , you can usually expand your work-force . |
| 16 | Erm so basically he 's still there and they 've got rid of me making it as an excuse but Charles as partner is his brother , Nicholas . |
| 17 | But despite a guest appearance by Jack Nicholson , and the assistance of the ingenious Simenon ( a man so uninfatuated by Prince and all his works that he fell asleep during the Sign O The Times movie ) , does Cat have the creative wherewithal to make it as a solo act ? |
| 18 | ‘ However , there are a lot of good players from around Europe playing on the Swedish Tour and it made me realise what I have to do to make it as a pro . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , one guy could n't stand the pace and Ray Walter broke his wrist and went home , and there 's an Argie , Angel Solis de Gonzales , ex-Mirage pilot , trying to make it as a pro . |
| 20 | Before the Tate/LaBianca murders happened , however , Charles Manson was attempting to make it as a rock star . |
| 21 | He had his living to make and he came to Port Talbot to make it as a teacher . |
| 22 | After completing a course at Dublin Film School six years ago , Hughes fled to London , determined to make it as a comic . |
| 23 | Palcy is the first black woman to make it as a big-budget director in Hollywood . |
| 24 | On the other hand , if he makes it as an international tighthead , that line-out capability will prove a handsome bonus as well as his ballast in a Scottish scrummage which has struggled of late . |