Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] become [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
2 | Yvonne joined the class , became ‘ hooked ’ and herself eventually became a Medau teachers . |
3 | The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze . |
4 | After the Kristallnacht in 1938 he helped rescue 14 young Jews from a German concentration camp , and he later became a Zionist . |
5 | The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope . |
6 | Johnny 's silky touches and ball playing skills , nurtured by the great Arthur Rowe , drew huge admiration from Palace fans and he inevitably became a target for the bigger clubs , but he was still with the Palace when he gained his first full England International cap ( against Northern Ireland at Wembley on 22 November 1961 ) and Palace 's first such honour in thirty-eight years . |
7 | From now on Prague was to develop an exciting and original form of late Gothic architecture and it increasingly became the mainspring of the courtly ‘ International Gothic ’ . |
8 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
9 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
10 | It was severely under-funded , and it quickly became a horse infirmary primarily , and a teaching body secondarily . |
11 | The ‘ superstore ’ Failed to prove a viable proposition and it subsequently became a workshop for a specialist firm of motorcar body builders used by Rolls Royce cars , and only in more recent years has that business ceased and the premises redeveloped as office accommodation . |