Example sentences of "become great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many schoolchildren dream of becoming great engineers ? |
| 2 | Most of these schemes of settlement by proprietors which included half the mainland colonies in the seventeenth century , assumed that the proprietors would become great landlords of the old English type on a very grand scale . |
| 3 | This poetry , by contrast , evokes a sympathy in me which is not often brought out by poetry , and I hope and believe that the works of Owen will become great classics and last for a long time . |
| 4 | But the world of the mystic is more than a garden or harvest , we must become the painters and dyers of our thoughts so that our minds will become great landscapes . |
| 5 | We became great mates after that . |
| 6 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 7 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 8 | Endill and the Bookman became great friends . |
| 9 | Hugh and Elizabeth became great friends and he treated her like gold . |
| 10 | They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went . |
| 11 | Catherine and he became great friends , but Hindley hated him , and was often cruel to him . |
| 12 | Surprisingly perhaps , Jill , the extraordinarily feminine beauty , and Ken , who spent so much of his life these days camping himself , became great friends . |
| 13 | In due course many of these became great barons in their own right ; but their origin was not quickly forgotten , and served as a constant reminder that royal patronage and service to the great counted for as much as blood and status . |
| 14 | ‘ We have become great friends . |
| 15 | Belle Maman was one of the godmothers ( she and the American Mrs Hawksworth had become great friends ) and Alice was invited also to the ceremony and the family party afterwards . |
| 16 | ‘ After a longer period , donors and patients sometimes meet and some have become great friends . ’ |
| 17 | Mothers become great experts in detecting unusual behaviour patterns in their babies . |
| 18 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |