Example sentences of "[noun] he became [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result he became the most knowledgeable and influential European in that part of Africa and was continually being called on by traders , missionaries , and humanitarians for advice or to sort out local disputes . |
| 2 | At the conclusion of his apprenticeship he became a partner in this firm , thereafter Wilberforce & Smith . |
| 3 | Now it is said that when in the present case the tenant entered pursuant to the agreement and paid a yearly rent he became a tenant from year to year on the terms of the agreement including clause 6 which prevents the landlord from giving notice to quit until the land is required for road widening . |
| 4 | As soon as Tamas , an ethnic Hungarian recruit in the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , stepped into Hungary he became a deserter . |
| 5 | For Bede he became the fifth overlord of all the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber ( HE II , 5 ) . |
| 6 | In December he became a cardinal ; and the following February he followed his old master de Gasparri as Secretary of State . |
| 7 | In place of orthodox intercourse he became an addicted masturbator indulging in ‘ a suicide committed daily ’ . |
| 8 | In respect of the law he became a radical . |
| 9 | He ruled that Mr Egelstedt could stay in Britain , but because of the law he became a visitor and could not be called an au pair . |
| 10 | We have seen that , under the ordinary form of a mortgage of freehold land used before the property Acts , the legal estate was conveyed to the mortgagee , so that at law he became the owner of the property ; but that the mortgagor was treated by equity as the owner — he had an equity of redemption , which was an equitable estate in the land ; and he could only be deprived of his equity of redemption in certain defined ways , e.g. by foreclosure or sale . |
| 11 | In the dream he became a participant , as a prisoner of a revolutionary tribunal whose judges included Marat and Robespierre . |
| 12 | Before leaving Ireland he became a member of the revolutionary Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) . |
| 13 | But no amount of camp humour could banish the bitter awareness that every time he gave way to his sexual needs he became a criminal . |
| 14 | After the war he became a journalist and , eventually , head of the English section of Czech radio . |
| 15 | After serving with the Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer war he became an aeronautical engineer , using his observation of sea-birds in flight to design a revolutionary type of monoplane with swept-back wings . |
| 16 | On retiring from the post he became a life peer and was appointed deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords in 1982 , an office he relinquished only two years ago , |
| 17 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The match was a a personal triumph for Wigan 's Test half-back Shaun Edwards ; for in collecting his 18th medal he became the most decorated player in the club 's history , overtaking the late and great forward of the post-war years , Ken Gee . |
| 20 | Because he was frail it was thought unwise to allow him to mix with other children or to spend time out of doors , and in consequence he became an avid reader . |
| 21 | Well the eldest lad was alright , but the middle lad he became a bit of a problem |
| 22 | GRAEME HICK carved out another milestone in his career when during Worcestershire 's match against Leicestershire at New Road he became the youngest player to register 20,000 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 23 | In the House of Commons he became an embarrassing joke , and in Downing Street a guarantee of indecision . |
| 24 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 25 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 26 | In his later years he became a student of Egyptology , and was also a connoisseur who amassed a fine collection of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals . |
| 27 | When A had lived x years he became the father of B. He lived after the birth of B y years and had other sons and daughters . |
| 28 | In 1183 Mercadier was just the commander of yet another of the bands of routiers which were busily spreading havoc in the southern Limousin , but in the next fifteen years he became the most famous professional soldier in Europe . |
| 29 | Congratulations are in order for , as in October he became a proud grandfather for the second time . |
| 30 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |