Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did her trick to catch the saint who avoided becoming a martyr . |
| 2 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 3 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 4 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 5 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |
| 6 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 7 | A few years ago , he said , he met an old friend who had become a policeman . |
| 8 | Daniel , who had become a specialist in wild blows of chance , thought he understood some of it . |
| 9 | It fell to Joseph Franklin , the Rochdale Manager , to succeed a man who had become a legend in his time , but whose legacy was not an easy one . |
| 10 | He was a hero who had become a legend . |
| 11 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
| 12 | He was accompanied by his Secretary , Dr. David Buxton , formerly headmaster at the Liverpool Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , who had become a convert to oral methods . |
| 13 | By this time most of the contracts were being negotiated by William James ( later Viscount ) Pirrie [ q.v. ] , who had become a partner in 1874 . |
| 14 | Anglo-Saxon law recognized that a peasant who prospered became a thegn and the thegns were a wide class including folk who would be called knights and folk who would be leading barons after the Conquest . |
| 15 | Much the easiest way to assemble a larger labour force was to buy slaves , and the Dutch were ready to help with this , giving the fairly long credit that anyone who wanted to become a planter would need in order to finance his purchases of slaves and of machinery to crush the cane and take the first steps in refining it . |