Example sentences of "she become the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
| 2 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |
| 3 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 4 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 5 | And in some way or another , she became the actual owner of the house . ’ |
| 6 | Described on the ballot paper as ‘ Mrs Hugh Dalton ’ , she became the ninth female in the Commons . |
| 7 | And yet , encouragingly ( for fiction as well as for herself ) , she proved able to rise again : she became the established mistress of a cavalry officer , and by the time she died was the legal wife of an admiral . |
| 8 | By 1764 the estate was held by the fifth Duke of Devonshire , whose wife , Georgina , was Earl Spencer 's daughter , and she became the popular hostess in the many entertainments for which Chiswick House became famous . |
| 9 | Gifted with a touchingly beautiful voice of the lyrico-XXXX spinto variety ( with that quality described by Italians as morbidezza ) she became the leading soprano of the company , singing a wide variety of roles , for instance in The Marriage of Figaro , La Traviata , Tannhauser , Lohengrin , The Valkyrie , Carmen , Otello and Der Rosenkavalier . |