Example sentences of "[pers pn] have become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had become a strong swimmer mainly to conquer fear . ’ |
| 2 | I had become a current affair — how odd ! |
| 3 | I would feel I had become a different person . |
| 4 | Since getting the equipment two years ago , I 've become an avid collector of compact discs — to a point little short of addiction . |
| 5 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
| 6 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 7 | Without it , she has become a virtual prisoner in her own home ; she is ruled by the clock and the hours worked by her local authority helpers . |
| 8 | Have you ever thought , ruefully , that far from raising an obedient child you 've become an obedient parent ? |
| 9 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 10 | Chiefly she felt that , as in a sudden slip or subsidence , she had become a different person : a worse person , a desperate person , but powerful and free . |
| 11 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 12 | As for his former wife , Aahmes , she had become a shadowy figure who sent him a letter from the Delta every new year , at the midsummer opet festival , with news of his favourite son , Heby . |
| 13 | After some time spent as a trainee , she had become an authorised dealer on the male-dominated floor of the Ring , specialising in the fast and furious world of copper futures . |
| 14 | As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again . |
| 15 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 16 | Forced to reply the following July to acknowledge a sum of fifty francs from Theo , he said grimly that he was writing ‘ with some reluctance ’ because ‘ you have become a total stranger to me , and I have become the same to you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I see that you have become a valued member of Mr Sands ’ ladies ' sewing circle . ’ |
| 18 | She 's become a right mumsy type , like erm |
| 19 | God 's love for and claim on man are worked out through a judgement and condemnation which disclose a profound alienation and estrangement between man and God , a contradiction in which man has attempted to break away from the tie with God , so that God 's claim on him has become a consuming fire . |
| 20 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 21 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 22 | They were used to working in the dark ; they had become a secret society . |
| 23 | State family planning programmes were first introduced in 1968 and since the establishment of the National Population Commission in 1974 , they have become a major government priority . |
| 24 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 25 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 26 | Many Aborigines become disorientated as tribal societies crumble and black independence erodes further — they have become a marginalized minority . |
| 27 | Today , with powerful venoms added , they have become a formidable defence system against anything that enters the domain of the spiny fish . |
| 28 | And they have become a Trojan Horse to undermine some very basic and strongly-held principles of welfare and the welfare state . ’ |
| 29 | At times they have become an overt issue in industrial disputes . |
| 30 | He has become a famous dramatist , and the two brothers have n't spoken for a decade , as Alfred feels Michael has betrayed the family by travestying them in his plays . |