Example sentences of "he become [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peasant farmer weeps as he alleges that ‘ blood test at hotel ’ led to him becoming an unwilling kidney donor Turk tells of transplant ‘ theft ’ . |
| 2 | With the amazing eyesight that had helped him become a great player , Luke pointed out egrets , storks and even a snake that whisked into its hole before Perdita could see it . |
| 3 | Souness , who won more than 50 caps for Scotland in a playing career that saw him become the driving force in Liverpool 's domination of Europe , was fined £100 by the Scottish FA in January 1989 for comments to a referee after a Premier Division game at Aberdeen . |
| 4 | Natural aptitude and a career in radio , film and television had helped him become an outstanding communicator — a strength chat not only made him a formidable campaigner , but also equipped him for the business of government in the television age . |
| 5 | On the one hand , two fans from a papermill implore him to become a dissident figurehead : on the other hand , two state policmen want him to sign a document denying authorship of the original article . |
| 6 | His first wife had left him to become a theatrical agent because she did n't want to be just a housewife . |
| 7 | Briefly Jaq entertained the notion that he was being tested by some Hidden Master of his secret order who had instructed Baal Firenze to send him to Stalinvast to assess whether Jaq possessed supreme courage and insight — enough for him to become a Hidden Master himself . |
| 8 | During his years in London Rambush expanded his knowledge into the field of chemical processing , continuing his studies at Battersea Polytechnic under Professor J. W. Hinchley , who invited him to become a founding member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1922 . |
| 9 | Generally , however , they must have been concerned to persuade him to become an amenable ruler . |
| 10 | When a figure such as Duck , amenable , respectful and flattering in his gratitude came to be transplanted from his native Wiltshire to mingle with the best society of the land , his mentors no longer questioned his right to such an elevation , but were immediately at pains to educate him to become an inconspicuous unit in his new social caste . |
| 11 | And he came he became a prominent Parliamentarian , perhaps in the thirties . |
| 12 | It was the great fire of London in 1666 which gave him his opening , however , and he became a prominent figure in the rebuilding of the city over the next decade . |
| 13 | He became a prominent critic of indirect rule and colonial self-sufficiency ; in the London group on African affairs he opposed the transfer of Bechuanaland , Basutoland , and Swaziland to South Africa . |
| 14 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |
| 15 | He did a stint on a chain gang , and he became a professional boxer for a while . |
| 16 | First he went to St Andrew 's in Scotland , then to Rome ; then he engaged in regular trading between England and Scotland for a while ; then he became a professional sailor . |
| 17 | In 1926 he became a commissioned officer in the Salvation Army , a commission he resigned in 1944 when his interest in spiritual matters had developed beyond the bounds of Salvationism . |
| 18 | Mr Thomas penywaun was one of my father 's first customers at the shop and he became a firm friend . |
| 19 | It was Chapman 's second foreign tour ( after Northampton 's German visit of 1909 ) and he became a firm advocate of overseas ventures , because of their publicity value and because they gave an opportunity of displaying the English soccer style to foreign audiences . |
| 20 | He became a zealous agent of Thomas Cromwell in the Dissolution and , according to John Foxe , ‘ repented him very muche that he had made Songes to Popish Ditties in the time of his blindnes ’ and seemingly abandoned composition . |
| 21 | Early in 1864 , before he was sixteen , he became a lay member of an irregular order of English Benedictines under the leadership of ‘ Father Ignatius ’ ( Joseph Leycester Lyne , q.v. ) , and loved to wear a monk 's habit and cowl with bare feet . |
| 22 | But Portillo whose Spanish name meaning the narrow gate , is very citable to a man responsible for sanctioning public spending bids , would need a department of his own before he became a serious leadership candidate . |
| 23 | He became a keen supporter of the BAAS , founding a club which gathered each year at the meetings , for conviviality and science . |
| 24 | He had always been drawn to the sea , as is also evinced by his poems ; at Taranto he became a keen yachtsman . |
| 25 | He was undermanager ( 1841 ) and manager ( 1844 ) at Monkwearmouth , then the deepest mine in Britain ; c .1845 he became a managing partner in Washington colliery , and sole owner of Unsworth . |
| 26 | He became a grand officer of the Legion of Honour and a lieutenant of the City of London . |
| 27 | After six years as Chairman , he knew all the important party figures and he became a dangerous foe ; in the National Union he combined with Selborne to mount a campaign against coalition and as a Birmingham MP he threatened even- Austen Chamberlain 's home base . |
| 28 | In 1926 he settled near Eastbourne , where he became a familiar sight driving at speed in his superb Lagonda through the Sussex lanes . |
| 29 | He became a key figure in the early 1970s when the public employment service was modernised and Jobcentres as we know them today were first established . |
| 30 | With the introduction of the Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician magazine in 1898 he became a regular contributor and was a founder-member of the Society of Model Engineers . |