Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 2 | Soon it had become a continuous deluge as if countless buckets of black ink were being emptied from the sky above them . |
| 3 | By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings . |
| 4 | The excavator noted that domestic rubbish had been tipped inside the precinct because , either it had become a convenient dumping ground , or there had been an attempt at deliberate desecration , as happened at a later date in the orchestra of the Verulamium temple theatre . |
| 5 | Yet it had become a point of honour not to tell him about Lori . |
| 6 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 7 | In local elections on Dec. 17 , 1989 [ see also p. 37197 ] , the PSD won 31.46 per cent of the vote ( as compared with 50.2 per cent in the July 1987 general election when it had become the only party in the post-1974 era to secure an absolute parliamentary majority — see pp. 35388-90 ) . |