Example sentences of "[pers pn] had become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 2 | I had become a Christian when leaving Oxford University through reading the Bible and being convinced that the New Testament documents were reliable . |
| 3 | I had become a tenant of my own dream . |
| 4 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 5 | In the interim , she had become a bit ‘ bolshie ’ . |
| 6 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 7 | By the late 1880s she had become a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft [ q.v. ] , who wrote to Joshua on 9 December 1790 : ‘ I fear her situation is still very uncomfortable . |
| 8 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 9 | She had become a school refuser , and Orkney Islands Education Department decided to offer her tutoring at home , and this was when one of the families in the case in question entered the picture . |
| 10 | She had become a golf fan when she had learned of my job and took a highly personal interest in Jack 's performances . |
| 11 | Finally , after long years , she had become a party-goer . |
| 12 | She had become a statue ; he hardly heeded her . |
| 13 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 14 | Leo was right ; she had become a hermit . |
| 15 | Very soon , she had become a sort of personal assistant , helping him select fabrics , cost dresses and choose accessories . |
| 16 | With a shake of her eight great sails , she had become a mother in her own right , and we were all her children . |
| 17 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 18 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 19 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 20 | She gave a glowing report of your work and said you had become a Christian . |
| 21 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 22 | It had become a question of the district committee 's prestige ; they were determined to use any weapon ready to their hand to vindicate their authority , and grossly abused the quite frightening powers at their command . ’ |
| 23 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |
| 24 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 25 | By the third quarter of the century , it had become a dye works , producing dyestuffs from logwood . |
| 26 | They had really tired of each other and it had become a struggle between them that was slow to surface until the Diamond Dogs tour because a lot of things happened on that tour that they were both very unhappy about . |
| 27 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 28 | Often , in those anguished and bewildered days as Miss Russell began to impose a new regime , it had become a sanctuary . |
| 29 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |
| 30 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |