Example sentences of "would become [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 2 | Then she 'd become just another notch on his bedpost — another victory , albeit not won with quite his usual ease . |
| 3 | It appeared that , despite the age gap , they 'd become quite good friends … |
| 4 | Perhaps he did n't understand why I 'd become so angry and distant . |
| 5 | In fact , I 'd become so accustomed to relying on her that I wondered how I would . |
| 6 | He 'd become almost paranoid since he 'd talked to Bliss . |
| 7 | I was dabbling with drugs and doing plenty of drugs and also I 'd become very arrogant . |
| 8 | Mum was feeling much better , and she was active again , though she 'd become very fat at Ted and Jean 's . |
| 9 | She 'd become very formal all of a sudden . |
| 10 | Mama had stopped using the notebook when she 'd become too ill for them to have any more happy times together . |
| 11 | Damn it , they 'd become too close . |
| 12 | If he 'd become too demanding , and ‘ doing something about him ’ meant ending the relationship , that could well have been a motive for killing her . |
| 13 | Although the lad was not , I judged , more than three years old , he was well aware already of his charisma and his potential , and he 'd become more conscious of it as he grew older and would have no qualms about dragging the adults he fancied into his net . |
| 14 | As the season progressed I 'd become more aware of the gradual decline in the sharpness of my axes and crampons , bringing them more in line with mixed rather than ice climbing gear . |
| 15 | He 'd become more aware of her as an attractive girl with a very feminine figure that the fashionable flat-chested dress styles could not conceal . |
| 16 | My school grades would plummet , I 'd become virtually anorexic and I 'd take up the oddest hobbies to please my loved one . |
| 17 | Without a generally accepted code of manners life would become thoroughly uncouth and unpleasant , so parents need to pass this on to their children . |
| 18 | The government announced on March 4 that the rupee would become partly convertible . |
| 19 | The imminent abolition of most border controls as a consequence of the implementation of the Single European Market raised the likelihood that illegal entry would become easier after January 1993 . |
| 20 | There would be no peace conference ; the crime against the Palestinians would become even blacker . |
| 21 | These remarks , as they stand , are sweeping generalisations based upon the narrowest of samples ; nevertheless we know with the wisdom of hindsight that the trends in question were definitely there in the 19th century and would become even more obvious in the 20th — that families would be smaller , and that the survival rate would improve dramatically . |
| 22 | If Balbinder did n't get a place at Cedars this year she would become even more anxious about his progress . |
| 23 | It was a way to guarantee that slovenly practices and inefficiencies would become even more firmly entrenched . |
| 24 | He would become even more mysterious when questioned . |
| 25 | If this site is phosphorylated the N terminal region would become even more acidic . |
| 26 | Looked at more closely still the dissolved athlete would become even more inscrutable than usual and could only be described with a set of equations which guessed where his component particles might be . |
| 27 | He would become again a Northern Ireland Protestant — though with a difference , certainly : he was no longer a resident ; he was learned ; he had the wonderful gifts both of imagination and a clear and analytical mind ; and above all his faith came of Grace to which he responded heroically , in patience and self-sacrifice — when he was aware of himself . |
| 28 | Leavis himself is by now reduced to an expression of gratitude for the letters page of The Times in " the world of triumphant modernity , the world of power centres from which the quantity-addicted machinery of civilization is controlled , directed and exploited " and in which " literature in the old sense has ceased to matter " Henceforth the conception of English as a central force for sustaining the national cultural " heritage " would become largely the property of the right . |
| 29 | It is clear that , if the Labour party were elected , the position in which we find ourselves today would become dramatically worse . |
| 30 | All she had to do was cross a couple of wires and George would become just another victim of a tragic domestic ‘ accident ’ . |