Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] become a [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling .
2 The Lombard king was exiled to Neustria , and later became a monk in the Abbey of Corbey where he died in his old age .
3 He entered Chichester Theological College and later became a curate in Lincolnshire .
4 He worked among the poor of the Shankill Road , and later became an evangelist in America .
5 She became a teacher at Lowood , as you did , and then became a governess in the house of a certain Mr Rochester . ’
6 In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University .
7 , Helen ( 1860–1925 ) , social reformer and theorist , was born 10 February 1860 in Manchester , the youngest daughter and fifth child in the family of five sons and four daughters of the Revd John Dendy , who had been a Nonconformist minister , and then became a businessman in Manchester , and his wife Sarah Beard , daughter of a Unitarian minister .
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