Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] became a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 2 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 3 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 4 | Amphibious raiding along the Channel coast and elsewhere became a coordinated intelligence gathering operation in preparation for the opening of a Second Front by the invasion of Europe , plans for which entailed amphibious training for large armies , pre-empting men and equipment from possible large raids . |
| 5 | She had arrived in Paris in 1912 and soon became a good friend of Soutine and a familiar Montparnasse character . |
| 6 | In February 1940 , Flying Officer Douglas Bader , who had lost his legs in a flying accident nine years earlier and was discharged from the RAF , rejoined and was posted to Duxford , and soon became a celebrated officer in Fighter Command , complete with tin legs , although he ended the war in Colditz . |
| 7 | By this means , Dionysiac music was introduced into Greece [ ( VII B.C. ? ) ] and rapidly became a potent force . |
| 8 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
| 9 | During the Turkish occupation the church was used as a mosque and later became a Jesuit monastery . |
| 10 | Originally this was a track which followed a ridge of higher ground and later became a main route for Welsh drovers taking their cattle to be fattened in Northampton before going on to market in London . |
| 11 | Lord Clive , a k a Clive of India , was born here and later became a local MP and Mayor of Shrewsbury . |
| 12 | After that I had a fear of water , especially the sea , but I learned to live with it and even became a good swimmer . |
| 13 | I He was very good-looking and fast became a popular idol — ‘ As Paris handsome and as Hector brave ’ , according to a contemporary poetaster . |
| 14 | Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up . |
| 15 | In the sample year ( 1985 ) , Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was sentenced at the end of February and immediately became a legendary sex beast to whom several subsequent reports explicitly referred . |
| 16 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me … ’ he began , and then became a human being . |
| 17 | Burgess was lonely and bored , missed his bohemian life in Soho , never attempted to learn Russian , and never became a Russian citizen . |
| 18 | Even then Chaplin avoided being too socially specific , for over and above this there was his own never quite fully adult quality and his essential reliance on mime technique and silence which ensured that he remained a fairy-tale symbol and never became a real-life person . |
| 19 | When she was 18 she went to study at the Royal School of Needlework , where she not only learnt how to identify and date historical embroidery , but also became a prize-winning practitioner . |
| 20 | He sat as one of the justices of King 's Bench in Easter term 1271 but never became a regular justice of the court . |