Example sentences of "become [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 2 | He was joined on most of his hunting expeditions by two Aborigines , Natty and Jemmy , ‘ two intelligent and faithful natives of the Yarrundi tribe ’ , who became extremely attached to Gould and later accompanied him on his most ambitious and successful expedition to the Mokai and Namoi Rivers in December of that year . |
| 3 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 4 | That 's why I think a child could become seriously addicted to Jan Pienkowski 's Nursery Board Books ( Heinemann , £1.99 ) . |
| 5 | Over the years we had become so attached to Renishaw Road that our new , smaller house in Thorne Road seemed cold and indifferent to our worries . |
| 6 | He 'd never realised he had become so attached to Lizzie and his own pain was unbearable . |
| 7 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 8 | Since the 1960s Third World governments have become better disposed to TNCs ‘ as they have experienced the benefits derived from foreign investment ’ ( Geyikdagi , 1984 , p.15 ) . |
| 9 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 10 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 11 | It was in a sense paradoxical that a regime for which the social repercussions accompanying industrial development in the West were anathema should have become actively committed to industrialization . |
| 12 | During the journey Mark became increasingly attached to Tara and concerned about her future after the trek was over . |
| 13 | During the 600 mile journey Mark became increasingly attached to Tara |
| 14 | While many Alfonsists became increasingly attracted to fascism after 1931 , openly fascist organizations made little headway in Spain before 1936 . |
| 15 | Surely , if there really were a knowable pre-life creator , such would have long since become truly known to humanity , and would not have remained a subject of speculation after many thousands of years . |