Example sentences of "[conj] he [adv] became [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Singer went to the Jews ' College School , London , where he subsequently became a teacher .
2 Though Hobbes had already made enemies of John Wallis and Seth Ward , two of its founder members , over his claim to have solved the geometrical problem of squaring the circle , it was at least partly due to his association in the popular mind with a materialistic atheism that he never became a Fellow .
3 After the Kristallnacht in 1938 he helped rescue 14 young Jews from a German concentration camp , and he later became a Zionist .
4 The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope .
5 Johnny 's silky touches and ball playing skills , nurtured by the great Arthur Rowe , drew huge admiration from Palace fans and he inevitably became a target for the bigger clubs , but he was still with the Palace when he gained his first full England International cap ( against Northern Ireland at Wembley on 22 November 1961 ) and Palace 's first such honour in thirty-eight years .
6 But he soon became a joke to most of us , because not only was he pedantic and patronizing , he was also frightened of what he 'd started and disliked suggestions for fear they implied that he was going wrong .
7 The worst problem was to try to explain quarantine regulations to the black-clothed mothers who would not go away from the main gates and wailed bitterly ‘ Oh ! mio bambino ! mio bambino ! ’ till Mr Rideout had to have Dr Hill 's attendance lest he too became a patient .
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