Example sentences of "he [vb past] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraged by the new legislation , he sought to become a big player on the local production scene . |
| 2 | And he did become a chief inspector in eight years . |
| 3 | In his resignation letter Sununu informed President George Bush that , owing to " distorted perceptions " , he had become a political liability and did not wish to jeopardize the President 's chances of re-election in 1992 . |
| 4 | He had become a political exile in France in October 1990 , and had made public statements to the effect that he would not return to Albania until democracy had been restored there [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 5 | He had become a successful Solicitor , and had joined the Board as a representative of the Old Stopfordians in 1949 . |
| 6 | He had become a small tree . |
| 7 | By 1949 he had become a central party figure , often acting as spokesman on minority issues . |
| 8 | He had become a naturalized Englishman , but he never carried his anglophilia to the point of being puritan , or even respectable . |
| 9 | For reasons not apparent he had become a reformed character : he worked diligently and spent long hours in the laboratory . |
| 10 | He had become a small-time mortician , specialising in the beautification — please allow the word ! — of corpses that had died an ugly or disfiguring death . |
| 11 | In 1914 he had become a full-time trade union official rising to the general secretaryship of the Trades Union Congress in the 1920s . |
| 12 | Unlike me , he seemed to enjoy appearing foolish , thinking he had become a new , open person . |
| 13 | I was sad to see him die , because he had become a good friend . |
| 14 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 15 | In 1949 , he had become a Jordanian citizen and in 1954 secured some family money that had been locked in Jaffa bank accounts , making him ‘ not a rich man , but living ’ . |
| 16 | Everybody knew he had become a lame duck . ’ |
| 17 | By now he had become a convinced Zionist . |
| 18 | However , despite his undoubted experience , Crabb 's health was not good , and he had become a heavy smoker and drinker . |
| 19 | Joseph of Arimathaea , a member of the Sanhedrin who was obviously sympathetic to Jesus ( Matthew claims he had become a secret disciple ) , went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus . |
| 20 | In one of his letters to Salt Gandhi wrote that he had become a confirmed vegetarian after reading Salt 's essays published under the title The Logic of Vegetarianism ( 1897 ) . |
| 21 | Eventually I asked him how he had become a Christian and why he had believed , and then asked him how he would answer some of the questions that his visit to a French university was bound to raise . |
| 22 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 23 | After being rejected by the Sandinistas , he resolved to become a flying doctor and ferry medical supplies to war-stricken campesinos . |
| 24 | I told Richard that , if he wanted to become a professional actor , he first had to change both the quality of his voice and his speech , and that would involve hard and tiresome work . |
| 25 | He says he wanted to become a professional singer so he would n't have to do a job he did n't like . |
| 26 | A Birmingham graduate , Professor Lodge taught in the English Department until 1987 , when he retired to become a full-time writer . |