Example sentences of "[conj] then become [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sailed before the mast in a windjammer , and then become a stoker . |
| 2 | This delightful timber-framed listed building was once the medieval home of six priests , and then became a rectory , which it remained until 1840 . |
| 3 | The bone which in lizards conducts sound from the ear-drum to the inner ear originated as the hind border of a gill slit in a fish , and then became a strut bracing the jaw articulation to the skull , before it acquired its present function . |
| 4 | In 1941 he qualified as a parachutist and then became a founder member of the Indian Airborne Unit : he was Brigade Major of 50 Brigade , then commanded 152 Battalion , and later 77 Indian Parachute Brigade . |
| 5 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 6 | She became a teacher at Lowood , as you did , and then became a governess in the house of a certain Mr Rochester . ’ |
| 7 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 8 | His father is a veterinary surgeon , and he himself assisted his father for a year or two and then became a groom . |
| 9 | Bill had been a Beatles roadie and then became a manager , of The Mojos and Badfinger — which is how he came to be the owner of studios in Denmark Street . |
| 10 | Julie and Tim married in August 1984 and later Julie , deciding teaching was too tame , set up an import and export business and then became a marketing consultant promoting boysenberries , a New Zealand soft fruit . |
| 11 | Similarly you get players such as Pallister who strulled at first and then became a bargain . |
| 12 | As it asserted , he was born of a humble background , worked as a salesman in Saudi Arabia in the early 1950s , prospered through his association with Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi entrepreneur , and then became a millionaire by helping to fix government contracts in the Gulf construction boom . |
| 13 | His name is Bob Skinner and he was a pilot officer in the last war and then became a teacher at the technical college in Carlisle . |
| 14 | a funny thing the , the chappy who you know erm was in the Neighbours and then became a pop star and all the rest |
| 15 | , Helen ( 1860–1925 ) , social reformer and theorist , was born 10 February 1860 in Manchester , the youngest daughter and fifth child in the family of five sons and four daughters of the Revd John Dendy , who had been a Nonconformist minister , and then became a businessman in Manchester , and his wife Sarah Beard , daughter of a Unitarian minister . |
| 16 | He attended a local school and then became a pupil-teacher at Half Assini . |
| 17 | His ‘ Sanspareil ’ , which competed unsuccessfully in the Rainhill locomotive trials of 1829 , instituted by the directors of the London and Manchester Railway and won by the ‘ Rocket ’ of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] , gave excellent service until 1844 and then became an exhibit at the Science Museum , London . |
| 18 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |