Example sentences of "become [adj] and [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once outside , Dana and I became quarrelsome and started to fight with one another , releasing heaven knows what accumulated stores of fury and resentment . |
| 2 | The court was told the woman became pregnant and had to have an abortion . |
| 3 | As news of it spread , more people became interested and wanted to take part . |
| 4 | I am not sure about the precise details , but I do believe than when Great-Grandfather Tallentire became old and decided to retire he refused to allow his sons to carry on the licence . |
| 5 | Hitcham , furthermore , which contained only seven taxpayers , was so insignificant a place it was surveyed jointly with Dorney , and we can readily imagine the constable becoming confused and forgetting to insert the name of the juvenile lord of the smaller township ; anyone subsequently checking the certificate could be forgiven for failing to realise that the first line referred to the lord of Dorney only . |
| 6 | The second stage is an awareness of , not only the situation we find difficult or are afraid of , but also of the fact that we are becoming anxious and beginning to panic . |
| 7 | When Laughton caught on to what was going on , he became paranoid and refused to work . |
| 8 | It was then Dexter detected an underlying tension : Blanche became bored and wanted to leave , but was reluctant to do so in case she gained a reputation as a straight-laced bore . |
| 9 | What actually happened was that the buyer became suspicious and decided to check out the competition . |
| 10 | A combination of a large military establishment and a massive arms industry — what Eisenhower called the " military-industrial complex " — could become over-powerful and start to dominate American policy . |
| 11 | Finally , pupils who perceive that they are unlikely to be selected for anything which is valued may become disheartened and fail to fulfil their potential . |
| 12 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 13 | Since the identity of the lover — the woman — becomes submerged in the other lover 's desire for her/his body , one of the two may become afraid and want to kill the other . |
| 14 | If you like , it is the same as the body producing the symptom of a cough when the lungs have become congested and need to get rid of the secretions in them . |
| 15 | The most incongruous of people become associated and continue to remain safe companions . |
| 16 | If you become ill and have to go into hospital , you will probably be concerned about keeping in touch with your children . |
| 17 | Critics of aromatherapy have pointed out that the sense of smell becomes quickly exhausted as the olfactory cells in the nose soon become saturated and cease to detect the aroma , so the effects of aromatherapy can only be short-lived . |
| 18 | Their flesh decays , their shells and their bones become scattered and turn to powder . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes in a small community — and ours is very small — passions which in a wider context would be dissipated become distilled and reduced to poison . |
| 20 | The first few times the carabiniere on duty became impatient and tried to make him come out , but the only answer he got was that the prisoner was feeling extremely unwell and wanted please to be left alone . |
| 21 | When , after perhaps quarter of an hour , the ice was opaque and solid as ever around the sides of the refrigerator , she became impatient and tried to chip at it , first with her fingers and then , finding them painful as well as useless , with the point of a kitchen knife . |
| 22 | With the continuing stalemate in 1917 and early 1918 it was not surprising that the radical right became restive and began to campaign both inside and outside the Unionist party for the removal of Lloyd George . |
| 23 | She only stayed for a few months , then she became unwell and had to give up the job . |
| 24 | In most insects , however , the greater part of the cuticle undergoes a process of sclerotization whereby it becomes hardened and darkened to form more or less tough , rigid sclerites separated from each other by membranous zones of unchanged soft cuticle . |
| 25 | But I 'm not sure whether it can be a permanent home for her because the fencing might not be good enough if she becomes lonely and tries to get out . |
| 26 | The intestinal wall , deprived of nutrients , becomes necrotic and ceases to function . |