Example sentences of "she [adv] became [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a star , Bette Davis was of the type commonly designated ‘ inimitable ’ , which tends to mean ( as it did in her case ) that she eventually became the butt of countless imitators ; and these imitators merely accentuated symptoms of self-parody that were already detectable in her own screen presence . |
| 2 | This sister , Elisabeth , was to count for a good deal in Nietzsche 's later life , favourably and otherwise : she eventually became the custodian of all his surviving works during the long period of incapacity that preceded his death and continued in that influential role , which she executed in a highly questionable way , for thirty-five years afterwards . |
| 3 | Her ‘ traditional ’ primary education restricted her and she only became a professional journalist ( Echo February 4 ) . |
| 4 | At first befriending a local diver , Nina then attracted a Cousteau film team and her fame spread until she soon became a Spanish national heroine . |
| 5 | Accordingly , she went on to play primarily on the Yiddish stage , where , with her impish manner and tiny build — her toes , she said , never reached the end of her stockings — she soon became a star . |
| 6 | The miniature faience robes are almost certainly votives standing for full-sized ceremonial robes that were offered to a goddess , either to dress an idol or to dress a priestess for a ceremony in which she somehow became the goddess . |
| 7 | She quickly became the woman to beat . |
| 8 | A faint smile grew across her face an while the old man sipped at the soup she gradually became the proud owner of a huge , cunning grin . |
| 9 | If in the early days she was chiefly responsible for shifting a lot of blue eyeliner and baseball caps , she gradually became an inspiration to the frail , the disadvantaged and the miserable . |
| 10 | She later became a pupil of Margaret Charlwood and more recently has been taught by Vanessa Forbes and Brenda Morgan . |
| 11 | She also became a celebrated beauty through the depictions made of her by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron [ q.v. ] and the painters Brown , D. G. Rossetti , Burne-Jones , and Val Prinsep [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | She also became an expert hockey player and was selected to represent England against Ireland in 1899 and 1900 . |
| 13 | Just as she had been a conscientious dancer , she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman . |
| 14 | As she increasingly became a historical figure herself , people found her a fascinating source of history for the inter-war period . |
| 15 | When Harold Wilson was re-elected in September 1974 , she again became the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security . |
| 16 | She too became a victim , but to many of the young , observing from out in the sticks , far even from the world of CND , she was a victor . |