Example sentences of "he became so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 2 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 3 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 4 | ‘ I could see the alcohol taking effect ; he became so excited that he began to talk to me in Italian . |
| 5 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 6 | The Prodigal Son becomes the pattern for us all ; he became so hungry that he was prepared to swallow his own pride . |
| 7 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 8 | He became so bored by family life ( Tamara had given him a daughter and Yolande a son and a daughter ) that he lost interest in his children . |
| 9 | He told Norwich Crown Court he became so de-pressed that he went to the girl 's Felixstowe home , cut himself with a knife and rubbed poison into the wound in a suicide bid . |
| 10 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |
| 11 | When the girl 's mother and aunt came round to his house to take her back he became so violent and threatening that they decided they might be endangering the girl 's life by staying and arguing . |
| 12 | Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it . |
| 13 | ‘ But every time he became so defensive , or aggressive . ’ |