Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 3 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 4 | Porterfield was a good player who always wanted to become a manager . |
| 5 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down . |
| 8 | She even considered becoming a nun . |
| 9 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 10 | At first it made him somewhat sad , because he dearly wished to become a train robber . |
| 11 | Mr Gorman recently trained to become a chiropractor . |
| 12 | On the other hand Edward II tried in vain to get Robert Baldock provided to Lichfield in 1321 , to Winchester in 1323 and to Norwich in 1325 ; Baldock never did become a bishop . |
| 13 | The popularity of programmes therefore did become a factor in BBC calculations in a qualitatively different way from previously . |
| 14 | As the 1980s came to an end the fitness movement worldwide had become a £1 billion industry . |