Example sentences of "we become [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We had first got to know one another as young teachers in the parish Sunday schools and in the Band of Hope , where we both signed the pledge against any intoxicating drink , a pledge withdrawn when we became adults . |
| 2 | Chunky heard about his and we became friends . ’ |
| 3 | On that day we became friends , yet for a long time I kept my distance , afraid even to shake hands with him . |
| 4 | ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit . |
| 5 | Anyway , we became friends of sorts . |
| 6 | Jim showed me around for awhile and we became friends until he moved to news work in Toronto within the year . |
| 7 | But the Lord Lane I met at Aviemore could hardly have been more different — affable , witty and without a trace of self awareness of his office ; and if I call him Geoffrey here , it is only because after Aviemore we became friends , played the odd round of golf together , exchanged letters and met on several social occasions . |
| 8 | You know , we became friends in Los Angeles . |
| 9 | ‘ We became friends very quickly because I think we think in the same way . |
| 10 | He 's a few years older than I am and was already one of the most respected members of the Weighing Room when we became friends . |
| 11 | But when he realised that we both wanted to do all we could to encourage the best art education for the pupils in the West Riding schools the barriers were down and we became friends . |
| 12 | We became friends with the Under-Secretary who , always hopeful of the French teacher 's early return , paid a number of late-night visits to the flat . |
| 13 | But while we laughed we became friends . |
| 14 | Making the film helped him to do so , for he welcomed us , we needed his counsel , and we became friends . |
| 15 | And because he was slightly dim , or at least vulnerable and kind and easily led , being one of the few people I could mock and dominate with impunity , we became mates . |
| 16 | Her annoyance vanished and we became conspirators . |
| 17 | In addition , we became experts in a new and complex world where everything from the intricacies of a changing semantic of underground language to the knowledge that tetrahydrocannabinol ( THE ) was the active ingredient of cannabis separated us from our previous associations and took us into a world where few in the organization could begin to operate with comfort . |
| 18 | So we became mercenaries in the armies of the Caliph of Egypt . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We became roommates and I taught him all he knows . ’ |
| 20 | We became connoisseurs of obstacles . |
| 21 | I ca n't say touch for touch how we became lovers because , really , we had been ever since he came into the room and found me still there , waiting and pretending . |
| 22 | ‘ Then why could we never go out together to places where we might be seen and recognised after we became lovers ? ’ she demanded scornfully . |
| 23 | We could not marry , but he has kept me in comfort ever since we became lovers and he fathered my two children . |
| 24 | We became regulars at a tea stall in the open desert between our hotel and the " souk which served the delicious spiced and milky Sudanese tea . |
| 25 | ‘ Just think , Miss Lea — we might even find we become friends . ’ |
| 26 | Life will be much pleasanter and smoother if we become resigned to that fact , if we become friends instead of enemies . " |
| 27 | That fanciful world we return to , usually , when we become geriatrics . |
| 28 | ‘ There are no gods unless we become gods . |
| 29 | ‘ Before we become objects of interest to the passing traffic . ’ |
| 30 | We become doctors , nurses , hoteliers , lawyers or writers because our parents were . |