Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [adv] [adv] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were pure ‘ gimmick ’ — a much-used Fifties word which had not yet become a term of abuse . |
| 2 | At a time when fashion , like much British culture , reflected predominantly middle-class values , and to escape these students were tapering their trousers and doing everything they could to make dull clothes more interesting , Minton 's stylish Bohemianism was much admired : he pioneered a taste for donkey jackets and had a flair for combining well-cut cast-offs and bow ties with eccentric items bought from Carnaby Street which had not yet become fashionable . |
| 3 | Finally I ventured to ask her to come and dine with me in the Pláka , which had not then become a pandemonium . |
| 4 | He had met her while staying with his Burne-Jones cousins at Rottingdean , a Sussex coastal village which had not then become a suburb of Brighton . |
| 5 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |