Example sentences of "who became a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chidi Imo , with whom I was to have some great races in the future and who became a friend , was in the thick of the arguments . |
| 2 | In July 1918 the actor Pierre Bertin , who became a member of the Comédie Française , was introduced to Modigliani one day when he was strolling along the Promenade des Anglais with Zborowski . |
| 3 | He was presumably known to at least some of his fellow members — who themselves became foundation members of the Veterinary College — in particular the Duke of Northumberland , first president of the College ; Granville Penn , active in the establishment of the College , who became a member of the Society of Arts in 1788 and was in 1791 a steward ; the Earl of Morton ( one of Vial 's patrons ) ; Thomas Pitt FSA , subsequently to be one of the most assiduous attenders of meetings of the College governors , and last , but not least , Arthur Young , a member of the Society of Arts since 1769 . |
| 4 | In the chair was William T. Lansberry who became a member of the new Public Assistance Committee . |
| 5 | Closely associated with Latimer and Neville was a small group of chamber knights , who also benefited substantially from Edward 's patronage , and a London merchant , Richard Lyons , who became a member of the king 's council , an unusual distinction for one of his status . |
| 6 | He became good friends with the theatre designer Jocelyn Herbert and her husband , the lawyer and friend of Robin Darwin , Sir Anthony Lousada , who became a member of the Royal College of Art Council in 1952 . |
| 7 | ACTRESS Bo Derek , who became a sex goddess in the movie 10 , is all set to do it again . |
| 8 | The Yanks did n't even bother to screen it , but we Brits lapped up the handlebar-moustachioed plotting and a-planning of David McCallum and Robert Wagner , not to mention the dastardly swagger of Nazi stereotype Anthony Valentine , who became a sex symbol . |
| 9 | They had two daughters and one son , who became a minister in the Church of Scotland . |
| 10 | In the second Cabinet reshuffle in less than a month , Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on Jan. 12 named Elemer Gergatz as Agriculture Minister in place of Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , who became a Minister without portfolio , and Gyula Kiss ( hitherto a Minister without portfolio ) as Minister of Labour Affairs in place of Sandor Györivanyi . |
| 11 | The closure announcement came the day after the resignation of Timex 's British president , Peter Hall , the man who became a hate figure for the 343 workers sacked five months ago in a dispute over lay-offs and cuts in benefits . |
| 12 | Hunt , who became a BBC commentator after retiring , and who commentated on the weekend 's Canadian Grand Prix , died at home in Wimbledon , south London . |
| 13 | The minority included Sir Keith Joseph , who took his bleak monetarist outlook to the Department of Trade and Industry , and John Biffen , an early apostle of Enoch Powell 's financial credo , who became a Treasury Minister ( and who also shared the Prime Minister 's lack of enthusiasm for ‘ Europe ’ ) . |
| 14 | And it was Lambert , a son by this marriage , who became a household official and diplomatic envoy under William III , was knighted , and then made a baronet ( 1718 ) : a nice reminder of the continuities between the Protectorate and the post-1689 monarchy . |
| 15 | Flaubert might have made a similar avowal — ‘ I leave two children , Bouvard and Pécuchet ’ — because his only child , the niece who became a daughter , had departed into disapproving adulthood . |
| 16 | Harold , William Snowden ( now a retired bank manager ) , Albert Graham ( retired building contractor ) and Alan Bennett ( who became a schoolmaster and died in war service with the RAF ) were all chums at St.Margaret 's School , Anfield , ( now located at Aigburth ) . |
| 17 | And one of this year 's vice-presidents of the association is a farmer 's daughter who became a farmer 's wife who gave birth to three sons , and whose special interests include farming . |
| 18 | A woman who became a man 20 years ago says there may be up to 60 transsexuals living in County Durham . |
| 19 | Angel Alcalde , who became a deputy for United People ( Herri Batasuna — HB ) , the political wing of ETA , following the assassination on Nov. 20 , 1989 , of Josu Muguruza , an HB deputy in the Cortes [ see p. 37050 ] , was released from prison by order of the courts on Dec. 1 in order to take up his seat . |
| 20 | She was by then already married to George Teerlinc , who became a gentleman pensioner , while she was granted in November 1546 an annuity of £40 p.a. which continued until her death . |
| 21 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |
| 22 | The young Edward Fitzgerald , who became a sceptic , wrote to his friend Thackeray , ‘ I think the evidence for them is to be doubted . |
| 23 | A girl who became a Christian at university went back home to her sceptical parents . |
| 24 | Mrs Robinson , who became a Christian in jail , refused to speak in her defence at her trial in Malaga . |
| 25 | He had two brothers , one called Robert , who was employed in the household of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland as a footman , I believe , and another called Frank who became a policeman . |
| 26 | John Devaux , who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989 , has been appointed a circuit judge . |
| 27 | One such Basque emigrant , who became a consul in Ecuador , even left his native village in his will one of the smaller Galapagos Islands , as an attractive if rather academic addition to its territory . |
| 28 | Great-Great-Grandfather Tallentire had a daughter called Hannah who became a Bayles when she married and who was my father 's grandmother . |
| 29 | JIMMY COOK , the mean South African run machine who became a legend in three seasons with Somerset , discovers late in life this week just how good a batsman he really is . |
| 30 | The film , which starred Huw Garmon in the title role , does not concentrate too heavily on the Black Chair episode , but rather on the character of the man who became a legend throughout Wales in the months after his death . |