Example sentences of "he [verb] become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |
| 2 | In order to generate interest in his players and their careers , he has become a press and publicity machine . |
| 3 | Mind you he has become a bit of an opinionated arsehole recently … more like Jonathan King , or Nina Myskow — y'know being deliberately contentious to get people to write in . |
| 4 | The ANC has worthy successors to him , but he has become a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle . |
| 5 | But by the end of the poem , he has become a character of extra-terrestrial proportions , a romantic sufferer carrying on his shoulders the sins of society . |
| 6 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 7 | He has become a scapegoat and an excuse , so that romantic writers can maintain their vision of a lost golden age . |
| 8 | He has become a target for abuse — and powerful sponsors who back the team with around £20-£25million a year want a say in what has become the greatest sports outcry of all time . |
| 9 | Now he has become a pain in the neck to the establishment . |
| 10 | Following Gazza 's first league goal for Lazio in the derby match against Roma , and his unforgettable second against Pescara on December 6 , he has become a sensation in Italy . |
| 11 | He has become an expert layman ( and a doctor groupie ) . |
| 12 | When the priest can not function as a priest , is he bound to become a prophet ? |
| 13 | Even as a small boy , Thomas had been interested in mechanical toys and as he grew up he determined to become an engineer like our father , who was a regular Royal Engineer . |
| 14 | Next , for a short time , he fancied becoming a baseball player . |
| 15 | Should he have become a friar or a student ? |
| 16 | Yes , erm , that was where I was born and er then when I was five my father erm hit a bad patch and he sold the house and er he decided to become a shoemaker in Baysford . |
| 17 | Mr Kretzshmar , who has travelled extensively around Europe , says he will stay in Germany , where he hopes to become a teacher . |
| 18 | He had a younger brother who went to Oxford as well and he did become a Communist . |
| 19 | By the Ptolemaic Period he had become a god of healing and thus was associated with Imhotep in the Theban temples of Deir el-Medina and Deir el-Bahri . |
| 20 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 21 | He had become a major in the military at twenty four and achieved much in the world in prosperity and position , but it had been an uphill climb . |
| 22 | He had become a kind of totem ; his extraordinary authority was based on that . |
| 23 | By now he had become a Test cricketer , having played in three of the exciting 1960–61 Tests against West Indies ( and substituted in the field in the tied Test at Brisbane , his first , at Melbourne , being the 500th Test match , and bringing him poignantly what were to remain best batting and bowling performances in an eight-Test career . |
| 24 | ‘ But he had started to drink heavily in recent months and Bernard felt he had become a liability . |
| 25 | By 1652 he had become a member of a syndicate engaged in victualling the navy . |
| 26 | He had become a hero for the garrison , for English and native defenders alike . |
| 27 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 28 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 29 | He went on talking of peace , but he had become a man who had allowed Britain 's major industry to be decimated and embittered . |
| 30 | Right-wing UNO parties had consistently demanded Ortega 's dismissal , especially since he had become a mainstay of the government . |