Example sentences of "[vb past] become [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did her trick to catch the saint who avoided becoming a martyr . |
| 2 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |
| 3 | Mr Gorman recently trained to become a chiropractor . |
| 4 | , Richard Austin ( 1862–1943 ) , detective-story writer , was born 11 April 1862 at 27 Thayer Street , in Marylebone , London , the youngest of five children ( four of them sons ) of Richard Freeman , a journeyman tailor who rose to become the manager of a bespoke tailoring business , and his wife Ann Maria Dunn . |
| 5 | Eldorado , says Mr Kilborn , tried to become a hybrid of the two — plenty of sun and sand , glamour , leisured living with a storyline . |
| 6 | The floor tried to become the wall . |
| 7 | So , by slow and painful steps , man learnt to become the hunter instead of the hunted , killing animals for food . |
| 8 | He moved to Edinburgh , and studied to become an artist . |
| 9 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 10 | The relations between the Cubists and the German painters with whom they came into contact were less stormy , although the internal situation in Germany was complex from an art-historical point of view owing to the fact that during the pre-war years Germany seemed to become the melting-pot for western European painting . |
| 11 | Easy Rider happened to become the film of the moment because it reflected the mood of the moment . |
| 12 | For the wild at heart , an entire army of animals captured on film and adapted to become a pair of braces . |
| 13 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 14 | Chlothild was presented with the choice of either having her grandchildren tonsured or killed ; she chose the latter solution , although one child , Chlodovald , escaped to become a monk and , in time , to be revered as St Cloud . |
| 15 | Paradoxically , Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down . |
| 16 | To pre-empt what threatened to become a lynching-party during a march on a nearby Chechen-populated town , the Soviet passed emergency resolutions including the eviction of Chechen residents from the area . |
| 17 | Enjoying widespread support in the constituencies , the supporters of the tariff threatened to become a danger to Baldwin 's leadership — as they had been during the 1929–31 period . |
| 18 | Even as a small boy , Thomas had been interested in mechanical toys and as he grew up he determined to become an engineer like our father , who was a regular Royal Engineer . |
| 19 | When Burma declined to become a member in 1948 — a decision which came as a most unpleasant surprise — comfort was taken in the thought that the voluntary nature of the Commonwealth was thereby confirmed . |
| 20 | The new theoretical starting point which such a study implied became the basis of all their work , and it is the central characteristic of their anthropology . |
| 21 | Next , for a short time , he fancied becoming a baseball player . |
| 22 | When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified . |
| 23 | Yes , erm , that was where I was born and er then when I was five my father erm hit a bad patch and he sold the house and er he decided to become a shoemaker in Baysford . |
| 24 | She decided to become a writer . |
| 25 | Neeld decided to become a landlord , and began buying estates in Somerset and West Wiltshire . |
| 26 | When she was eight , they went to Detroit to see Hello Dolly and Sandra decided to become a performer . |
| 27 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 28 | Richard got his Doctorate , and decided to become a schoolmaster . |
| 29 | The other friend , who also decided to become a lawyer , was as straight as an arrow in flight , and in total contrast , was very conventional in his approach to life . |
| 30 | After attending Bedford College ( 1878–82 ) , Edith Durham decided to become an artist , and trained at the Royal Academy Schools . |