Example sentences of "[vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suddenly , hideously , the world had become a mask — a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world . |
| 32 | The man had become a myth and acquired the definite article . |
| 33 | But by the turn of the century , the trickle had become a tide . |
| 34 | She had become a school refuser , and Orkney Islands Education Department decided to offer her tutoring at home , and this was when one of the families in the case in question entered the picture . |
| 35 | We forgot that the castle was now a German headquarters and that the orphanage had become a school for officer cadets of the resurgent Fascist Party . |
| 36 | It stood like a slice of stale chocolate cake , marooned in a tar ox-bow , that had become a cul-de-sac when the main thoroughfare ploughed another course . |
| 37 | In another report , Tass correspondent Nikolai Morozov said University Square in Bucharest had become a centre of the protests , with mainly young speakers taking turns to denounce the government . |
| 38 | The Dresden city government gave permission for the rallies to be held , insisting that refusal might have provoked violent demonstrations in the city , which had become a centre of radical right-wing activity since the end of the East German communist regime . |
| 39 | Shildon said that the financial situation had become a mess and that records could be made to prove almost anything , but he did not believe there was a serious intention to prosecute . |
| 40 | In one shocking instant Tim , 32 , had become a widower , and his 23-month-old daughter Sophie motherless . |
| 41 | My father had become a Spiritualist almost by accident . |
| 42 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 43 | He had become a major in the military at twenty four and achieved much in the world in prosperity and position , but it had been an uphill climb . |
| 44 | Colonel Dawson , Officer commanding No. 4 Commando , had become a casualty and had been evacuated to England . |
| 45 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 46 | Often , in those anguished and bewildered days as Miss Russell began to impose a new regime , it had become a sanctuary . |
| 47 | Since 63 b.c. , Israel itself had become a territory of the Roman Empire , forced to acknowledge a secular ruler who — in blasphemous affront to every tenet of Judaism — dared to proclaim himself a god . |
| 48 | In truth the government of Danzig had become a labyrinth sown with pits for the unwary . |
| 49 | Henry Ford 's family had been born just outside Cork city and had emigrated to America , he himself had become a multi-millionaire and now , as a national benefactor , was perpetuating his name in his ancestral home town . |
| 50 | Alec had become a minister ! |
| 51 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 52 | The house had become a kind of bolt hole for a clutch of growing and maturing sons . |
| 53 | He had become a kind of totem ; his extraordinary authority was based on that . |
| 54 | The two sisters had converted the stables attached to their home , Miller 's House in Lewes , into a studio which during the war had become a kind of arts centre , where exhibitions , lectures and concerts were held and which received support and encouragement from eminent names . |
| 55 | If it had been anyone else who had probed into her private feelings , Alice might have been angry , but this man had become a kind of father-figure to her these past years , and despite the motives Jules might attribute to him , she truly believed her employer had her well-being at heart . |
| 56 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 57 | One such quiet stroll had become a 12-mile hike by the time we got back to our hotel . |
| 58 | The dusty cart-track had become a lawn ; the village houses had given way to straight , symmetrical lines of bottle-palms ; in the borders the lilies and irises were in full bloom — wonderful swathes of azure and magenta leading on into the char-bagh . |
| 59 | She realised that the magistrate had become a judge . |
| 60 | After the defeat of Japan in 1945 , China had become a battleground for a civil war , fought between the forces of its Nationalist ruler , Chiang Kai-shek , and those of the Chinese Communist Party , led by Mao Tse-tung ( AA , pp. 57–9 ) . |