Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [adv] become a [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 | The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze . |
| 3 | After the Kristallnacht in 1938 he helped rescue 14 young Jews from a German concentration camp , and he later became a Zionist . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was severely under-funded , and it quickly became a horse infirmary primarily , and a teaching body secondarily . |
| 8 | 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 . |