Example sentences of "[vb past] become a [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 | Eldorado , says Mr Kilborn , tried to become a hybrid of the two — plenty of sun and sand , glamour , leisured living with a storyline . |
| 5 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 6 | For the wild at heart , an entire army of animals captured on film and adapted to become a pair of braces . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Next , for a short time , he fancied becoming a baseball player . |
| 14 | When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She decided to become a writer . |
| 17 | Neeld decided to become a landlord , and began buying estates in Somerset and West Wiltshire . |
| 18 | When she was eight , they went to Detroit to see Hello Dolly and Sandra decided to become a performer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Richard got his Doctorate , and decided to become a schoolmaster . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 23 | ‘ I would imagine alcohol started to become a problem for Len when his wife left him about three years ago , ’ Martin began . |
| 24 | Mahler needed to become a conductor of other men 's music before he became a real composer . |
| 25 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 26 | This peculiarly unpleasant mixture combined to become a mudflow , which over-ran everything in its path ; in particular a large sugar processing plant , the Usine Guerin , which stood on a tongue of flat land in the valley of the Riviere Blanche , surrounded by sugar-cane plantations . |
| 27 | There Daniel managed to become a haberdasher in 1632 ; there too they joined other separatists like John Duppa and John Lilburne [ q.v. ] in their struggle against the bishops . |
| 28 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 29 | So , she chose to become a pop star , in a business which champions immorality , or , at the very least , amorality . |
| 30 | He had a younger brother who went to Oxford as well and he did become a Communist . |