Example sentences of "and became a " in BNC.
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1 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
2 | On that basis the Irish Parliament , whose legislative powers had since the fifteenth century been subject to the sanction of the executive in London , had that limitation removed from it and became a ‘ free Parliament ’ , but a Parliament on which no executive , not even the local Irish executive , was dependent . |
3 | In his wisdom , Lord Mountbatten saw what was happening and , after his retirement in 1965 , concentrated his attention on the young Prince and became a vital figure in his life . |
4 | ‘ The first Congress of People 's Deputies was held and became a political sensation . |
5 | He was educated at New College , Oxford , as one of a small band of mature students sponsored in 1937 by the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-mural Studies , got a soccer Blue , and became a lifelong worker for the WEA . |
6 | Robert was sent as an apprentice to an upholsterer in Covent Garden at the age of fourteen , progressed up the ladder , bought the business , and became a big wheel in the East India Company , a founder of Williams & Glyn Bank and the local MP . |
7 | When the 1966 imprisonment again gave Paisley a high profile , he attended meetings being led by Beattie in Hillsborough and became a founding member of the Free Presbyterian congregation there . |
8 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
9 | The secretary lost Awlad Amira support and became a night watchman in a school . |
10 | He came from a Methodist home , made his ‘ supreme decision ’ at fourteen and became a Sunday School teacher , local preacher and eventually , in 1875 , a minister . |
11 | Some ministers devoted part of their time to local affairs : S. J. Smith , for example , was born in Bedford in 1822 and became a Congregational minister in Enfield after attending a denominational college and taking the London BA . |
12 | The Evangelical Alliance was founded in 1846 largely under the inspiration of a Polish Jew , Ridley Herschell , who had been converted in London and became a notable Nonconformist preacher in the capital . |
13 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
14 | She went on to attack the Colonial Office on the ‘ hut tax ’ , and became a Fellow of the Anthropological Institute in 1898 . |
15 | She joined him , was known thereafter as Toots , and became a formidable and ruthless ally in Cotton 's obsessive quest to become the best player in the world and to emancipate his chosen profession . |
16 | During this period he was active in public service in Wales , and devoted himself to the development of scouting , and became a friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement . |
17 | In 1950 Winchester left Kenya to attend a Joint Services Staff College at Latimer , and became a GSO1 at the War Office the next year . |
18 | In the Commons , he hunted with the Left , earning a reputation as a sharp debater and a hard-worker and became a leading scourge of the Common Market . |
19 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
20 | She moved to London after the break-up of her marriage and became a prison visitor some time after Teamwork Associates was swallowed into a larger body . |
21 | In the District these were organised and developed by George Pateman at Cheshunt College for several years , and became a distinctive feature of summer programmes . |
22 | A few yards down , the passage broadened out and became a mezzanine . |
23 | Joseph 's cause was adopted by General Miles , by the Presbyterian Church , and by the Indian Rights Association , and became a national issue . |
24 | Development through Drama seemed to provide just this and became a set text worldwide , but as with most formulae , the recommended practice often does not quite match the philosophy . |
25 | It was a vague enough concept for the left-liberals to unite around , and became a kind of surrogate nationalism . |
26 | The Bolivian miners performed the classic vanguard role when they participated in the Bolivian revolution and became a significant partner in the revolutionary party that took control . |
27 | Knox got involved in a local action group and became a vocal critic of the plan , regularly appearing on television programmes standing defiantly in the shadow of the existing power station blocks . |
28 | The city grew to 250,000 people and became a centre for the paper industry . |
29 | During the following years , the mill lost its agricultural links and became a substantial iron and wire works . |
30 | Macijauskas himself is from the second city and former capital , Kaunas which is where he worked with the local branch of the society , won some competitions and became a newspaper reporter . |