Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] became a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire broke out in an old , litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished . |
| 2 | , Friedrich ( 1896–1959 ) , philosopher , was born 21 March 1896 in Vienna , the son of Leopold Waismann , a Russian who subsequently became a naturalized Austrian , and his wife Clara Schwarz , an Austrian . |
| 3 | The Wall itself never became a complete line of defences . |
| 4 | Mr Sijaona , an influential and outspoken backbencher who later became a minister , said this in 1961 , and it was a theme taken up by others on a number of occasions : |
| 5 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 6 | Brinson had by this stage , therefore , acquired a reputation of not being committed to any one institution , and enquiries pointed to him as a neutral Chairman of the new panel , which he was asked to chair , and by virtue of his chairmanship he also became a member of the Creative and Performing Arts Panel , and then Board . |
| 7 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 8 | Rhoda had a brother called Tom , a very pleasant young man who also became a preacher , but not for long because , unfortunately , he died young . |
| 9 | In the end I too became a partner in the company . |
| 10 | Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility . |
| 11 | Silently Joshua returned his stare , then made what sounded like a snort which quickly became a chuckle until finally he exploded into outright laughter . |
| 12 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |