Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else it becomes an increasingly embattled stance , out of touch with the world . |
| 2 | More and more Albanians were recruited into the Kosovo Party , until eventually they became a majority . |
| 3 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 4 | And so I became a beneficiary again of the orifice revolution . |
| 5 | And so I became a she-wolf myself , and rescued them and suckled them . |
| 6 | I think David had one or two of the songs off ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ way before and so it became a natural progression to do that . |
| 7 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 8 | One stone is disturbed on a hillside , and soon it becomes a landslide . ’ |
| 9 | As people avoid more and more they become a prisoner of their anxiety . |
| 10 | Queen Victoria had first used the railway in 1842 to travel from Slough to Paddington and thereafter she became a regular railway traveller . |
| 11 | He had not wished to leave the Commons when he inherited his title in 1895 and thereafter he became an unceasing advocate of the House of Lords , defending its powers , resisting the sale of peerages , and demanding its reconstruction so that its powers could be restored . |
| 12 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 13 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
| 14 | And up till then , you went to you got your scholarship , you went to the tu pupil- teacher training centre and then you became a teacher . |
| 15 | So before that it was a National Song , and then it became a National Anthem , eighteen fifty-two , before your time , I should think , eighteen fifty-two . |
| 16 | Then I got the nuts off , by which time these two ladies had become a crowd of people staring at me changing this tyre , and then it becomes a performance . |
| 17 | Which ever way we look at it , its nature 's way of keeping us going , its , its what 's there to keep us surviving as a species , so its , its very clever , the , it worked , worked , nature worked it out very cleverly indeed that we should have this wonderful passion for someone and it should become love and then we should have children and then it becomes a , the whole cycle and that 's , that 's how it all goes . |
| 18 | What you can do is to insert the cardboard backing into the envelope like that and then you put that bit through the rings , and then it becomes a tear pad . |
| 19 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 20 | Some professional golfers become obsessional and are forever tinkering with their clubs and ultimately it becomes a self-defeating process . |
| 21 | She was to stay with her sister until Isobel decided definitely whether to remain in Tollemarche or return to England , and occasionally she became a little bored and was glad of Hank 's lively company , though to her annoyance , he treated her as if she were a ten-year-old . |
| 22 | I had built it up , at first quite unconsciously , but later it became a deliberately assumed mask . |
| 23 | When finally she becomes a mother-in-law she is entitled to tyrannise her daughter-in-law , reminding her that ‘ I have suffered in my time now it is your turn ’ . |