Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , what had previously been an increasingly lively stream , seemed suddenly to become a torrent . |
| 2 | According to his biography , Eustace studied black magic in Toledo , returned home to become a monk at the abbey of Saint Samer near Calais , and then left the monastery to avenge the murder of his father . |
| 3 | The numbers of Indians at stations did indeed become an index of the distance the American traveller had journeyed westwards . |
| 4 | The evangelist had managed to obtain an affidavit from one of the three Danes responsible for the publication of LRSB but who had since become a Christian , stating that ‘ Mao money ’ had financed the publication of the book in Denmark . |
| 5 | That patch had slowly become an image of despair and frustration over many occasions since she had first shared his bed . |
| 6 | South of the river , Southwark had effectively become a suburb rather than an independent borough , and to the north and the east of the City walls the immigrant poor clustered together in their cottages . |
| 7 | Even before it was dissolved the TBC had effectively become an arm of the Government under the Ministry of Information and Tourism , and the Minister was clearly determined to impose controls . |
| 8 | ‘ But I am not bitter over how Sam Hammam handled things even though it had all become a bit of a nightmare for me . |
| 9 | He put his arms around me in the bear-hug of a joyous boy who had suddenly become a man . |
| 10 | Taylor 's slip catching had suddenly become a worry , though he recovered his poise with a good take late in the match , no longer rigid as he threw himself low to his right . |
| 11 | The NHS had long become a totem of bipartisan welfare provision , Bevan 's conflict with the BMA long forgotten . |
| 12 | The imperial schism had already become a question of European concern , sparking off a network of alliances and counter-alliances only to be matched by those of later eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe . |
| 13 | This had already become a subject of crucial significance in England during the course of the seventh century . |
| 14 | His ambassador had already become a Trollslayer from the shame of having his beard shaved . |
| 15 | The court of Champagne had meanwhile become a place of development for the ideal of courtly love and the medieval romantic poem . |
| 16 | Pain had finally become a constant . |
| 17 | There seems to have been very little , if any , educational advantage in this elaboration , but there certainly was an advantage , in a profession which had become vastly overcrowded , of lengthening the period of education and , when one had finally become a muderris , of providing at least the illusion of advancement by the introduction of a number of grades which were unnecessary except in bureaucratic terms . |
| 18 | Morrissey had just become a star so all this ‘ I 'm a misery ’ shit , will not reflect his lifestyle . |
| 19 | The move from Greek Street — where at one stage he had had 60 boys being taught in the old Headmaster 's house — to Buxton Road had gone smoothly , and Daniel 's most illustrious pupil , Edge , had just become a Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 20 | Two tables to his left I recognized the handsome young Guards major who had just become a father . |
| 21 | Train spotting had hardly become an attraction for the boys of the day when the first Easter excursion thundered through Balcombe Tunnel en route to Brighton . |
| 22 | And there was a certain xenophobia informing the official English view of what had rapidly become a world game . |
| 23 | It had started out as a panacea for one failed relationship and had quickly become a relationship in itself . |
| 24 | It had later become a place of exile and migration . |
| 25 | By 1624 he had probably become a client of George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , speaking strongly in favour of war with Spain , and in 1625 he was reported ‘ never out of my lord duke 's chamber and bosom ’ . |
| 26 | I had also become a cyclist . |
| 27 | The large German consulate building in the Mendoubita had also become a depository where high Nazi officials cached their wealth as a hedge against the future . |
| 28 | Someone who occasionally joined in these discussions was a pupil of Lewis 's , Alan Griffiths , who had also become a friend . |
| 29 | The Tiller fame and fortune had also become an attraction for hangers-on to members of his family . |
| 30 | Concorde ( which was to be partly built in Bristol ) benefited from a strong local lobby including a local MP , Tony Benn , who had now become a member of the Labour Cabinet . |