Example sentences of "he became a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and through him became a founder member of the Fitzroy Street Group , a small society of artists centred on the Soho area who were aware of post-Impressionist developments in France . |
| 2 | A brilliant polemical writer , he overwhelmed his opponents ( heretics , Jews , pagans , and , after he became a Montanist , orthodox bishops ) with a combination of rapier and bludgeon . |
| 3 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 4 | Yet she could see the shutters falling across his eyes , and he became a stoic , much-put-upon servant taking a rating from his master and mistress . |
| 5 | With the coming of war , he became a pilot officer in the RAF , and , after training in Canada , he aimed to specialize in night-flying . |
| 6 | Thereafter he became a missionary of heathen Africa , wrote a seminal alchemical text called the Clavicula , and was reputed to turn himself into a red cock when occasion demanded . |
| 7 | Evelyn abstained from the Commons after Pride 's Purge in 1648 , and went into retirement until the return of the secluded MPs to the Long Parliament in February 1660 , when he became a councillor of state . |
| 8 | He became a suspect for the double rape because he was the goalkeeper for a local amateur soccer team and police were able to match his footprints to those found on a floor in his victim 's house . |
| 9 | He became a bit morose for a while a bit inside himself which is fairly natural under the circumstances I suppose . |
| 10 | Well the eldest lad was alright , but the middle lad he became a bit of a problem |
| 11 | ‘ that , on general principles , an injury transmitted from the actor to a person through his own organic substance , or through his mother , before he became a person , stands on the same footing as an injury transmitted to an existing person through other intervening substances outside him … |
| 12 | The time that interests me is before he was posted to the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo , before he became a flier . |
| 13 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
| 14 | As soon as Tamas , an ethnic Hungarian recruit in the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , stepped into Hungary he became a deserter . |
| 15 | He was keen to encourage the vocational aspects of art education and attracted into the various departments concerned with commercial art men and women of talent , including Macvyn Wright , Toni del Renzio , Mervyn Peake , Albert Halliwell ( later to follow Johnstone to Central School of Art where he became a catalyst for the teaching of basic design ) and Gertrude Hermes who was responsible for wood-engraving . |
| 16 | He became a haberdasher and Merchant Adventurer , growing rich on the cloth export trade to Antwerp . |
| 17 | He became a protector of the species four years ago at a time when badger baiting had reached alarming proportions . |
| 18 | Now , when he became a detective , he had n't got the advantage of the local knowledge that I had . |
| 19 | When he arrived in London from Lichfield , Johnson had to use his strapping muscles and burliness : he became a porter in Covent Garden in order to subsist . |
| 20 | From the House of Lords and the National Union he became a thorn in the flesh of the party leaders , where in a party government it would have been inconceivable that such a man , at the height of his powers and with powerful connections . |
| 21 | He went to the College of Physical Science ( later Armstrong College ) , Newcastle upon Tyne ( 1874–7 ) , and then to Emmanuel College , Cambridge ( 1877–81 ) , where he became a scholar in 1879 . |
| 22 | The sailor went off in disappointment to Morocco where , they say , he became a renegade . |
| 23 | He became a gentleman usher to the privy chamber in 1662 , and his influence with the king was of continuing value to the society . |
| 24 | The tournament proved to be Gascoigne 's finest hour … he became a superstar overnight … and Jane spent the next 2 years helping him arrange a multi million pound transfer to the Rome club Lazio . |
| 25 | In so doing he became a symbol of the age , and his poetry became its echoing music — with its brooding grandeur as well as its bleakness , its plangency as well as its ellipses , its rhythmical strength as well as its theatrical equivocations . |
| 26 | He became a horticulturalist at the White House in Washington , ‘ among the Bushes ’ , Bloch remarks . |
| 27 | ‘ What on earth do you with a baby all day ? ’ asked a friend when he became a dad for the first time . |
| 28 | Born in Staffordshire , the son of an impoverished clockmaker , Gordon embarked on a newspaper career when he became a reporter with the Hanleybased Staffordshire Sentinel in 1859 . |
| 29 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 30 | TERRY Waite , the special representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the would-be saviour of the Western hostages in Lebanon , became a burden to them once he became a hostage , Newsweek magazine reports in its latest issue . |