Example sentences of "[pron] had become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become friendly with Vivien Fish , whose father was Churchill 's dentist . |
| 2 | Very enjoyable indeed , after the very rough fare that I had become used to living in the slit trench . |
| 3 | I thought I had become used to being alone , and to the idea that I would always be alone , but I was wrong . |
| 4 | Life at home was good , I had become used to living with my parents , and gradually I integrated at school . |
| 5 | Kittiwakes were by far the most numerous of the gulls , nesting in huge noisy colonies on precipitous cliffs , while glaucous gulls with their all pale wing-tips replaced the herring gulls and black-backs I had become used to seeing in Shetland . |
| 6 | The time was right for me to leave , because I had become stale . |
| 7 | But I knew I had become involved in something too uniquely bizarre to miss , or to spoil , through lack of patience or humour . |
| 8 | I had become new . |
| 9 | I 'd been in the city for too long , too many late nights staring at an empty page : the Muse and I had become jaded with each other . |
| 10 | Having disposed alike of unwanted flesh and unwanted menstruation , I had become pure and clean , and therefore superior to those around me . |
| 11 | By the end of my stay in health , I had become convinced that it would be possible to create a health commission with its own chief executive or chairman . |
| 12 | i was amazed at how quickly and easily I fell back into the old routine , and my fears that I had become brain-dead during my months at home turned out to be unfounded . |
| 13 | I missed the rest of her words , for I had become aware of the danger confronting me . |
| 14 | It seemed far more likely that , as Dr Gyggle suggested , I had become aware of Samuel Northcliffe separately and incorporated information I had gleaned from the newspapers into my fantasy . |
| 15 | I had become fond of Longfellow 's Saga of King Olaf : fond of it in a casual , shallow way for its story and its vigorous rhythms . |
| 16 | She says of her new career that it is ‘ partly choice , but I wanted to leave school-teaching anyway as I had become disillusioned ’ . |
| 17 | As so often occurs in these situations , I had become blind to the obvious — that is , until my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton 's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth : that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan . |
| 18 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 19 | ‘ As a senior director , I 'm used to having complete creative authority while making a film and I found that I could n't carry out my job in the manner to which I had become accustomed . |
| 20 | Between 1974 and 1979 I had become concerned with the number of investigations conducted in a few States where , despite representations from properly appointed accredited representatives , the findings in the final reports were clearly less than satisfactory . |
| 21 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 22 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 23 | were traditional watermills and windmills which had become redundant with the introduction of steam , and later electrical power . |
| 24 | Resolutely opposed by two of Gardiner 's less-enlightened predecessors as Lord Chancellor , Simonds and Dilhorne , the Law Commission under its first chairman , Sir Leslie Scarman , soon earned acceptance as a valuable strengthening of the hitherto piecemeal procedures for revising laws which had become outdated or unsatisfactory in practice . |
| 25 | The ebbs and flows of population movement could not be matched by changes in a local government structure which had become fixed in the pattern established in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | It was strongly supported in the 1950s by the companies who purchased the cotton grown as a cash crop in the savannah , because it appeared to be the most effective way to reverse the declining fertility and falling yields which had become apparent by that time . |
| 27 | However , under SP7/89 , a parent company can surrender ACT that was previously set off against its mainstream tax liability in an assessment which had become final . |
| 28 | Edward Heath 's attempts to commit the party to something more dynamic , outward-looking and enterprise-based , after the meeting at Selsdon Park in 1970 , collapsed in the face of a corporate culture which had become used to having things its own way under a succession of both Conservative and Labour governments . |
| 29 | To the Inquiry Inspector , Michael Barnes , this point-blank refusal to discuss an issue which had become central to the nuclear debate was like a red rag to a bull . |
| 30 | At school they had once heard of some animal which had become extinct because of its huge flat feet . |