求解，物做主语的动词

贾天楚

Spanning more than 50 years, Friedrich Müller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.

• Müller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as
• Müller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
• the career of Müller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of
• Müller's career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
• Müller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as
  这个题不能用人做主语是因为前面是span应该用物做主语，还有一道声音穿透水面的题，求教各位大佬可以给提供一些常用物做主语的动词吗？

（常见的happen cost 之类的就不用了）