Example sentences of "they became " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 2 | It is perhaps less well known that a number of them became ‘ lost ’ as building stone was re-used and land ploughed over . |
| 3 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 4 | They also acquired the railways and many of them became as proud of their state systems as of the other perquisites of the British connection . |
| 5 | It was not until the 1880s that intercolonial connections were made , and the stations which connected them became important not only as points of break of gauge , and therefore of journey for passengers , but also as customs centres . |
| 6 | But I suppose that it could happen if one of them became faulty . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , the Heisenberg programme , designed to keep the best researchers within the university system until jobs for them became vacant , has not received enough applicants . |
| 8 | Numbers of them became administrators or held important posts . |
| 9 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 10 | The fire died down and the embers became grey ashes , the forest around them became full of noises as the creatures of the night resumed possession of it , but Marian , Allen and Hugh slept on until well after dawn . |
| 11 | My injuries were my first concern but , as the full extent of them became clear , golf came back into my mind , ’ said the 52-year-old professional . |
| 12 | Comparisons between them became commonplace , but unlike Brando , this other rebel was not so aggressive either on screen or off it . |
| 13 | Still , during Tolkien 's lifetime the words and the realities behind them became more and more familiar , bringing with them , one should note , entirely new ideas about the nature and limitations of human will . |
| 14 | Two of them became quite well known . |
| 15 | Magellan , who like everybody else was awed by their size , called these men ‘ patagones ’ — ‘ big feet ’ ; the land in which he found them became — and has been , ever since — Patagonia . |
| 16 | Through the 1920s , a clear gap opened up between Barth and Brunner on the one hand , and Bultmann and Gogarten on the other , though it was only to be later that the full significance of the divergence between them became apparent . |
| 17 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | Hence not only were there more old people , but more of them became unable to support themselves at earlier ages . |
| 19 | Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence . |
| 20 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 21 | Over the weeks , one of them became morose . |
| 22 | Everything around them became slightly abnormal , the new occupation , the environment , the dress they wore , the physical and emotional climate . |
| 23 | The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name . |
| 24 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 25 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 26 | At last , a streak of orange light appeared to the east ; and gradually the white sea in front of them became an immense expanse of fertile green , while the purple ocean behind turned shimmering white . |
| 27 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 28 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 29 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 30 | " The sad thing is so many of them thought every white person is a Christian and of course they 're not , and a lot of them became disillusioned and wide open to communism , " said Eva . |