Example sentences of "had become [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Pincher was surprised at the nature of this scoop and when he got back to his office telephoned Admiral Thomson , the secretary of the D-Notice Committee , in case Brown had become over-tired during lunch . |
| 2 | The furniture had all been renewed , upholstered for preference in red velvet , and in all the state rooms the great ceilings , which had become grimy through neglect , had been regilded and repainted . |
| 3 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 4 | On 20 April 1964 Lonsdale was exchanged for a British businessman , Greville Wynne , who had become involved in espionage and been imprisoned in Russia . |
| 5 | One of Linskog 's patients had a lymphatic tumour which had become resistant to radiotherapy ; situated in the jaw , it was making eating and breathing difficult . |
| 6 | By that decade different religious and social elements had become prominent in antislavery from those who had taken the initiative in earlier years . |
| 7 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 8 | Over the years , Dauntless had become used to loneliness , but he suspected that for Cleo it was a new condition which she was having trouble getting used to . |
| 9 | He had become used to washing and shaving in cold water . |
| 10 | There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe . |
| 11 | But by 1957 he had become disenchanted with government service and decided it was time to join the private sector . |
| 12 | They belonged to a category of fabric called fustian ( derived from the name of the Egyptian town where it originated ) , and by Shakespeare 's time the very word fustian had become synonymous with bombast and pretentiousness . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had become aware of suspicion attaching to the affairs of the company , and at an early stage formed the opinion that the matter was appropriate for investigation by procedures created by the Criminal Justice Act 1987 . |
| 14 | Years before , a wooden handrail , polished by generations of hands , had lined the high pavement , but the town council had decided that it served no useful purpose and detracted from the charm of the stone-walled cottages perched high on the bank above , and when the handrail had become shaky with age it had been dismantled , much to the annoyance of the Thrush Green residents . |
| 15 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 16 | Thurmaston , just to the north of Leicester , was another village that had become dependent upon framework knitting by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The founder was a man who had become interested in aviation during the thirties , spent the war in the South African Air Force and , on returning to civilian life , foresaw the opportunities that could be won with cheaply acquired and converted military aircraft . |
| 18 | That I did n't tell Richard , was partly for Sophie 's sake — to say she had become interested in politics would have been stretching his credulity too far — but also for my own . |
| 19 | These were James Geikie , the younger brother of Archibald , and John Young who held a medical degree but had become interested in geology . |
| 20 | Victorine had become busy with dustpan and brush . |
| 21 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |
| 22 | In each case it is evident that physical geographers had to become conversant with progress in related disciplines and a number of excellent papers in Progress in Physical Geography ( 1977- ) provide reports reflecting progress in other disciplines . |