Example sentences of "he become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work on a medical ward and as a health visitor followed until in 1988 he became a Neighbourhood Nurse Manager for Wandsworth Health Authority . |
| 2 | However , he became a victim of Sod 's Law and not everybody appreciated his play . |
| 3 | After retirement he became a respected commentator , chairman of selectors and eventually president of Yorkshire ( 1981-4 ) until , saddened by the internal strife , he resigned from an office in which he took great pride . |
| 4 | Along with Francois Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and other contributors , he became a director himself , and the brilliance of their early work was one of the reasons their views became so firmly enshrined . |
| 5 | All this was before he became a jazz legend , writing such hits as ‘ Flat Foot Floogie ’ and appearing in films like Hellzapoppin . |
| 6 | He could hurt those who cared most about him — his parents when he became a monk and Mirfield when he followed his resignation with a national television account of what was personal and private . |
| 7 | In 1926 he became a commissioned officer in the Salvation Army , a commission he resigned in 1944 when his interest in spiritual matters had developed beyond the bounds of Salvationism . |
| 8 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |
| 9 | Meanwhile he became a regular speaker at debates . |
| 10 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 11 | He became a bishop because , and solely because , the diocese knew him well and wanted him back . |
| 12 | He became a friend of Jack Lawson ( Lord Lawson ) who was a faithful Methodist , and Sam Watson the Durham miners ' leader , whom he came to know intimately . |
| 13 | he became a second permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment during Edward Heath 's administration . |
| 14 | On leaving the Crown Agents he became a director of Midland Bank and chairman of Thomas Cook , which Midland Bank owned , and he became a director and subsequently chairman of Brooke Bond and a director and subsequently chairman of Royal Insurance . |
| 15 | On leaving the Crown Agents he became a director of Midland Bank and chairman of Thomas Cook , which Midland Bank owned , and he became a director and subsequently chairman of Brooke Bond and a director and subsequently chairman of Royal Insurance . |
| 16 | In 1976 he became a member of the organising committee charged with the responsibility of welding a disparate group of UK aircraft companies into the nationalised British Aerospace group . |
| 17 | The bluffness of Lewis , which before he became a don was only part of his nature ( 'Heavy Lewis ' ) , was fast hardening into a persona . |
| 18 | As to the outward forms of religion , Lewis decided from the moment that he became a Christian that he should attend his college chapel on weekday mornings and his parish church on Sundays . |
| 19 | After he became a Christian , Lewis did completely change his view not only of his own personality but of human personality in general . |
| 20 | He became a founder , and active executive , of the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva . |
| 21 | He became a member of the emasculated politburo when the invasion took place taking over from the wretched Mr Dubcek in April 1969 after branding him and his team ‘ extremists and rightwing forces . ’ |
| 22 | He became a formal CIA asset in 1966 or 1967 . |
| 23 | John 's youngest son , Azariah , backed Monmouth in the rebellion and was banished to the West Indies , where he became a sugar planter . |
| 24 | He became a driving force . |
| 25 | He studied languages , mathematics , and philosophy at Trinity College , Dublin , where he became a Fellow in 1707 . |
| 26 | Soon after this , his name was put forward for the Jamaican Senate and he became a member , but although he attended regularly it was not something he took to . |
| 27 | In the divine tribunal he became a sin offering . |
| 28 | The historian George Trevelyan , shortly before he became a Fellow of Trinity , wrote to his brother Charles : |
| 29 | Two years after her death he became a convert , and married a wealthy Catholic woman . |
| 30 | He became a young magician , who hustled his act onto local TV . |