Example sentences of "[pron] become [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 2 | He masked the fear in his eyes with the vacant , subservient glaze which became second nature to military personnel . |
| 3 | Among its most prominent leaders were Adu Boahen , a former history professor , who became interim chairman , and Johnny Hansen , Interior Secretary in 1982-83 , who became first vice-chairman . |
| 4 | According to John Herbert , who became second Secretary of State in 1600 , it had three principal functions : the business of the Queen , in which it ‘ doth handle principally questions and consultations of state ’ ; disputes between party and party , which might involve either criminal or civil suits or a mixture of the two ; and disputes ‘ wherein the Queen is a party ’ . |
| 5 | As laid down in the will that he had made on 29 April 1696 , revising an earlier one dated 13 July 1685 , in which his wife had been named as his sole heir , Howard 's estates were inherited by his only surviving child , Henry Charles Howard ( born 18 October 1668 ) ; from him they descended to his son , Charles Howard [ q.v. ] , who became tenth Duke of Norfolk in 1777 . |
| 6 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 7 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 8 | It became second nature . ’ |
| 9 | With the aid of a small capital thus amassed , he became first a pedlar in Lincolnshire , then a traveller — but it seems to sit on the surface of his story that the motive for his wider travels was not so much the search for gain as the love of travel itself , and the urge to pilgrimage . |
| 10 | Since he became first their prisoner and then their enforced guest , Nicholas had rarely met all his present masters ; and had thought it best not to seek their company . |
| 11 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 12 | Practice breathing in this way for twenty minutes each day until it becomes second nature . |