Example sentences of "[conj] then become [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became a teacher at Lowood , as you did , and then became a governess in the house of a certain Mr Rochester . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As it asserted , he was born of a humble background , worked as a salesman in Saudi Arabia in the early 1950s , prospered through his association with Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi entrepreneur , and then became a millionaire by helping to fix government contracts in the Gulf construction boom . |
| 4 | His name is Bob Skinner and he was a pilot officer in the last war and then became a teacher at the technical college in Carlisle . |
| 5 | , 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 . |
| 6 | He attended a local school and then became a pupil-teacher at Half Assini . |
| 7 | His ‘ Sanspareil ’ , which competed unsuccessfully in the Rainhill locomotive trials of 1829 , instituted by the directors of the London and Manchester Railway and won by the ‘ Rocket ’ of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] , gave excellent service until 1844 and then became an exhibit at the Science Museum , London . |