Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become a skinny , sickly , snuffly bronchial child . |
| 2 | I had become a good and conscientious boy . |
| 3 | ‘ I had become a strong swimmer mainly to conquer fear . ’ |
| 4 | I had become a current affair — how odd ! |
| 5 | I would feel I had become a different person . |
| 6 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 7 | Hence their wariness of any human concepts about God which threatened to become a new idolatry that could be mistaken for the reality itself . |
| 8 | This economic slowdown , which threatened to become a full-blown recession , had the effect of highlighting structural weaknesses hitherto obscured by the comfortable consumer-led growth of the previous three years . |
| 9 | There the 12th of July parade had been re-routed to take it away from the ‘ Tunnel ’ , part of the traditional route which had become a Catholic area . |
| 10 | Television , which had become a major force in American political life , was essential to Reagan 's success in obtaining the Republican nomination in 1980 . |
| 11 | The union was unsuccessful in gaining recognition : ‘ The Ludlow war , one of the more tragic episodes in labor 's history , failed to dissolve the adamantine opposition to unionism , which had become a fixed and immovable article of faith among many of the great industries of the United States ’ ( Taft and Ross , 1969:256 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ They got in touch with the Northern Ireland Livestock Marketing Commission who agreed to become a joint sponsor , allowing our butchers to compete , ’ he said . |
| 13 | and then you were inveigled to the R and D and then you inveigled to become a Vice Chair , and today you 've been handling the ceremony so well , we 've had to keep you in cotton wool to make sure that er , that you kept your health . |
| 14 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 15 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
| 16 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 17 | Chiefly she felt that , as in a sudden slip or subsidence , she had become a different person : a worse person , a desperate person , but powerful and free . |
| 18 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 19 | I could say nothing to Lollo , she had become a silent , horrible , raw red thing . |
| 20 | As for his former wife , Aahmes , she had become a shadowy figure who sent him a letter from the Delta every new year , at the midsummer opet festival , with news of his favourite son , Heby . |
| 21 | Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people . |
| 22 | Many of the excursions I made with Wendy Anderson who had become a close friend . |
| 23 | Dawson , who had become a Roman Catholic shortly after going down from Oxford , was an influential member of the group of writers which formed around the new Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward from the 1930s . |
| 24 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 25 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |
| 26 | ‘ We should also allow dual citizenship in cases where a foreigner who wanted to become a German citizen would suffer disadvantages if he gave up his old citizenship . ’ |
| 27 | Shipping came and went , nothing happened and we seemed to become a permanent part of the seascape . |
| 28 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 29 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 30 | They were used to working in the dark ; they had become a secret society . |