Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 2 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 3 | I had become a Christian when leaving Oxford University through reading the Bible and being convinced that the New Testament documents were reliable . |
| 4 | I had become a tenant of my own dream . |
| 5 | I wanted to become a reporter because I lusted after a belted trenchcoat like the one Joel McCrea wore in Hitchcock 's Foreign Correspondent . |
| 6 | She decided to become a writer . |
| 7 | So , she chose to become a pop star , in a business which champions immorality , or , at the very least , amorality . |
| 8 | Mr. T. has also said in an affidavit that ‘ there has never been anything whatsoever in [ Miss T. 's ] actions which led me to believe that she wished to become a Jehovah 's Witness . ’ |
| 9 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 10 | In the interim , she had become a bit ‘ bolshie ’ . |
| 11 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 12 | By the late 1880s she had become a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft [ q.v. ] , who wrote to Joshua on 9 December 1790 : ‘ I fear her situation is still very uncomfortable . |
| 13 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 14 | She had become a school refuser , and Orkney Islands Education Department decided to offer her tutoring at home , and this was when one of the families in the case in question entered the picture . |
| 15 | She had become a golf fan when she had learned of my job and took a highly personal interest in Jack 's performances . |
| 16 | Finally , after long years , she had become a party-goer . |
| 17 | She had become a statue ; he hardly heeded her . |
| 18 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 19 | Leo was right ; she had become a hermit . |
| 20 | Very soon , she had become a sort of personal assistant , helping him select fabrics , cost dresses and choose accessories . |
| 21 | With a shake of her eight great sails , she had become a mother in her own right , and we were all her children . |
| 22 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 23 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 24 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 25 | She gave a glowing report of your work and said you had become a Christian . |
| 26 | She longed to become a Medau teacher and , as luck would have it , met Hinrich Medau in Berlin at the point when he was in need of an English Language tutor prior to a visit to the United States to introduce ball and club gymnastics . |
| 27 | Her father wanted her to go to Cambridge University and get a good degree but she wanted to become a photographer . |
| 28 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 29 | Teachers at Dover College described Richens as a brilliant sportsman and scholar who they expected to become a lawyer . |
| 30 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |