Example sentences of "she become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After she 'd turned off , she became tired and nervous . |
| 2 | She became nervous , distraite , almost as if she was frightened of something . ’ |
| 3 | As such she became integral to international strategic thinking and power politics in subsequent years . |
| 4 | But , in the summerhouse , she became dissatisfied with the slow growth of clay . |
| 5 | In 1889 she became general secretary of the Guild , which then had fifty-one branches and a membership of between 1,700 and 1,800 . |
| 6 | I am told , ’ and here she became confidential , ‘ many among them are perverts ! ’ |
| 7 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 8 | She became moody and unhappy , just like Bob who was having to cope with sharing Kim . |
| 9 | She became involved with scraping butter and marmalade on to a piece of toast . |
| 10 | A member of the WRVS for over 30 years , previously working on a hospital tea bar in Woolwich , she became involved with the court operation when she and her husband first moved to Hampshire . |
| 11 | Here she became involved with people form the BBC Orchestra , as there was a double bass player living in the next room . |
| 12 | She became involved with a married man , who eventually ended the affair — but ten years later , Jessica was still convinced that , one day , he would realise that he loved her , arrive at her door with a ring and they would live happily ever after . |
| 13 | In that connection she became involved in the Headmaster 's plans to invite marriage guidance counsellors to present several sex education films . |
| 14 | When she boarded this train she became involved in an altercation with the sleeping-car attendant , which she enjoyed , because it was in French , and she was able to use her subjunctives and conditionals , and say " si " instead of " oui " at appropriate moments . |
| 15 | So , in one of the most notable romantic suspense novels ever written , Mary Roberts Rinehart 's The Circular Staircase ( and that 's one , though it dates from 1909 , you could well read ) the heroine , Rachel Innes , says of herself and the adventure she became involved in , " Madness seized me . " |
| 16 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 17 | During World War I she became involved in organizing war work for women , and after the war became a leading promoter of professional employment for women , a founder of the Women 's Employment Federation , and first chairman ( 1930–9 ) of the Cambridge University women 's employment board . |
| 18 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 19 | But after a while she became involved in a quarrel with them , and was trying to get away from the angry group , when Alec d'Urberville rode by . |
| 20 | Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century . |
| 21 | After her first five years apprenticeship she became involved with transport and it was here that she was destined to make her mark and has continued to do so for 37 years . |
| 22 | Then she became calmer as realisation dawned , and she went on accusingly , ‘ So I was right . |
| 23 | Melissa took the girl in her arms and gently stroked her head until she became calmer . |
| 24 | She was irritated with herself for thinking like a spy , for slipping into Urquhart 's world of suspicion and conspiracy , and as she became more irritated with herself , she became sharp with her companion . |
| 25 | On listening harder she became certain the chant was ‘ Bony lady 's husband 's dead ’ . |
| 26 | It was at exactly the time when Odd-Knut feared Brusie was dying , as she became unconscious . |
| 27 | She would never wear rubber unless she became incontinent or was taking a course in scuba diving for women . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a terrible strain — especially when she became incontinent . ’ |
| 29 | She became one of those women reporters whose listening ear and less judgemental approach to people in trouble helped to make the distillation of news the more respected practice it is today . |
| 30 | She became one of the greatest sportswomen of the century and was stunningly beautiful to boot . |