Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 2 | I had become a Christian when leaving Oxford University through reading the Bible and being convinced that the New Testament documents were reliable . |
| 3 | I had become a tenant of my own dream . |
| 4 | The idea was to get away from the ‘ man in a suit ’ which had become a cliche of space fiction and alien fantasies . |
| 5 | Once again demonstrating the resilience which had become a characteristic of his candidacy , Clinton campaigned strongly in New York , and even chose it as the venue for his first foreign policy speech since December . |
| 6 | The Dresden city government gave permission for the rallies to be held , insisting that refusal might have provoked violent demonstrations in the city , which had become a centre of radical right-wing activity since the end of the East German communist regime . |
| 7 | It was half a mile from the nearest village , which had become a haven for retired and commuting stockbrokers since the war . |
| 8 | While Prince Charles must be relieved to be free of a marriage which had become a sham , he , his family and in the end the British Government have met Diana 's terms . |
| 9 | But Linda had lost her author , she had spent too much effort and money on an event which had become a disaster . |
| 10 | Now the British built a steam cathedral on a piece of land which had become a sort of palimpsest of indigenous and alien power . |
| 11 | At least a portion of the jewish population was saving its skin by allying with the Party , for in April we discover 400 Jewish delegates in Minsk speeding up the fight against Zionism and proposing the closure of their religious schools in Belorussia , a notion which had become a reality by September according to the central press . |
| 12 | But their route to the capital , Kigali , ran through the Volcanoes National Park , which had become a battle-ground . |
| 13 | Henry Ford 's family had been born just outside Cork city and had emigrated to America , he himself had become a multi-millionaire and now , as a national benefactor , was perpetuating his name in his ancestral home town . |
| 14 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 15 | In the interim , she had become a bit ‘ bolshie ’ . |
| 16 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 17 | By the late 1880s she had become a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft [ q.v. ] , who wrote to Joshua on 9 December 1790 : ‘ I fear her situation is still very uncomfortable . |
| 18 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 19 | She had become a school refuser , and Orkney Islands Education Department decided to offer her tutoring at home , and this was when one of the families in the case in question entered the picture . |
| 20 | She had become a golf fan when she had learned of my job and took a highly personal interest in Jack 's performances . |
| 21 | Finally , after long years , she had become a party-goer . |
| 22 | She had become a statue ; he hardly heeded her . |
| 23 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 24 | Leo was right ; she had become a hermit . |
| 25 | Very soon , she had become a sort of personal assistant , helping him select fabrics , cost dresses and choose accessories . |
| 26 | With a shake of her eight great sails , she had become a mother in her own right , and we were all her children . |
| 27 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 28 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 29 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 30 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |