Example sentences of "[pers pn] become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 2 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 3 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 4 | Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence . |
| 5 | At last , a streak of orange light appeared to the east ; and gradually the white sea in front of them became an immense expanse of fertile green , while the purple ocean behind turned shimmering white . |
| 6 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 7 | ‘ Managers were proud to lead their staff into dispute and out into the streets over the years ; unfortunately , very many of them became the pit bull terriers of 1992 ’ . |
| 8 | In the first of four topics , Father Harry Stratton , parish priest of St Alban 's , Macclesfield , spoke of the development in the Church 's teaching on baptism , seen as a movement away from the congregation being virtually spectators at the liturgy , to them becoming a parish community worshipping together . |
| 9 | Overthrown Tsar Nicholas II , his wife Alexandra and three of their five children were slaughtered on July 17 , 1918 , to stop them becoming a focal point for opposition to communist leaders Lenin and Trotsky . |
| 10 | If Shadows and would-be Shadows started behaving like members of a government , there 'd be a greater chance of them becoming the real thing . |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about me becoming a burden on you , you know . |
| 12 | Someone else pissed over my shoes , and all my Dad thought about was me becoming a doctor . |
| 13 | ‘ Ineptitude did n't stop me becoming an asshole doctor ! ’ |
| 14 | In 1963 I became a CID aide or trainee detective , engaged in run-of-the-mill work dealing with a flow of petty crime . |
| 15 | ‘ Since I can not be a Russian , ’ he says , ‘ I became a Slavophil ’ — an articulator , that is , of romantic church-andstate conservatism in the debates of the time : indeed a walking , talking theory . |
| 16 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 17 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 18 | ‘ To cut a long story short — I became a potter . ’ |
| 19 | This was one reason why I became a postnatal supporter for a year and why I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor . |
| 20 | It followed that some schools were more competitive and selective academically than others : those which had no fee-payers ( in the pre-1932 sense ) were startlingly similar in character and purpose to the type of post-war grammar school of which , very much later , I became a head . |
| 21 | She was still in that office when , in January 1954 , I became a secondary-school teacher . |
| 22 | I became a bird watcher in Orkney . |
| 23 | I became a good golfer , a one-handicapper , at the municipal course in Southport . |
| 24 | As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead . |
| 25 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 26 | I became a very good eyeballer , and I could read any line on any green . |
| 27 | Then I became a Maoist . |
| 28 | Whether I became a writer because of my desire for solitude or whether , being a writer I became more solitary , I still do not know . |
| 29 | Years later when I became a painter , many of my subjects were Biblical . |
| 30 | When Paul says : ‘ When I became a man I put away the things of children ’ , he does not mean rejecting the innocence , the sparkle and the insights of youth . |