Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become a skinny , sickly , snuffly bronchial child . |
| 2 | I had become a good and conscientious boy . |
| 3 | ‘ I had become a strong swimmer mainly to conquer fear . ’ |
| 4 | I had become a current affair — how odd ! |
| 5 | I would feel I had become a different person . |
| 6 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 7 | and then you were inveigled to the R and D and then you inveigled to become a Vice Chair , and today you 've been handling the ceremony so well , we 've had to keep you in cotton wool to make sure that er , that you kept your health . |
| 8 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 9 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 10 | Chiefly she felt that , as in a sudden slip or subsidence , she had become a different person : a worse person , a desperate person , but powerful and free . |
| 11 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 12 | I could say nothing to Lollo , she had become a silent , horrible , raw red thing . |
| 13 | As for his former wife , Aahmes , she had become a shadowy figure who sent him a letter from the Delta every new year , at the midsummer opet festival , with news of his favourite son , Heby . |
| 14 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 15 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |
| 16 | Shipping came and went , nothing happened and we seemed to become a permanent part of the seascape . |
| 17 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 18 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 19 | They were used to working in the dark ; they had become a secret society . |
| 20 | Encouraged by the new legislation , he sought to become a big player on the local production scene . |
| 21 | For Horace it might have been a short madness ; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore . |
| 22 | It was an arena perfectly adapted to pomp and circumstance and was to witness many subsequent celebrations of the successes of the English nation as it grew to become a dominant world power . |
| 23 | And he did become a chief inspector in eight years . |
| 24 | It had become a real Waterloo : Alexandre collapsed into a Builders Arms ! |
| 25 | It had become a narrow , word-spinning sect . |
| 26 | Ally Pally 's pre-restoration days undoubtedly had associations of tatty romance — they lay in the contrast between the Cecil B. De Mille bravura of the original concept and such visible signs of its decline , as if it had become a Victorian actor/manager unable to gesticulate because of rheumatism . |
| 27 | It had become a worldwide traded commodity . |
| 28 | She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted . |
| 29 | It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days . |
| 30 | It had become a political hot potato , and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run . |