Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] become the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 2 | He found himself becoming the emotional prop of the marriage . |
| 3 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 4 | In 1976 , the N.C.T.D. re-formed itself to become the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf ( B.A.T.O.D. ) |
| 5 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 6 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 7 | Souness , who won more than 50 caps for Scotland in a playing career that saw him become the driving force in Liverpool 's domination of Europe , was fined £100 by the Scottish FA in January 1989 for comments to a referee after a Premier Division game at Aberdeen . |
| 8 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |
| 9 | In 1887 , Kautsky , who was to become the most authoritative exponent of Marxism , gave what became the official account of the economic basis for modern nationalism — the drive to create a unified market for capitalist development . |
| 10 | He set himself to become the best shot and swordsman in the regiment with a single-minded determination which aroused , not the respect he had anticipated , but derision . |