Example sentences of "[pers pn] have become a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | In the past few months , I 've become a housewife . |
| 5 | Great God , I 've become a bore . |
| 6 | Leaning forward in the rattan chair , on the after deck , he said , ‘ I tell you , Doctor ’ — he always addressed me thus , showing the respect of one professional man for another ‘ in over thirty years at sea I 've become a specialist in islands . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 've become a cult figure over the past 18 months , I have respect now ; people do n't walk up in the street and say ‘ Hi Chris ’ and clap me on the shoulder . |
| 8 | I think I have become a bit more positive . |
| 9 | And now that I have become a partner in business I can work from very early and right through in order to be free at night to train . |
| 10 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 11 | I have become a snob . |
| 12 | The study concludes that ‘ She has become a mistress of the pre-planned , carefully packaged appearance . ’ . |
| 13 | TELEVISION presenter Jayne Irving tells me she has become a forces ' pin-up in Bosnia . |
| 14 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
| 15 | She is now divorced and after periods of University Lecturing at Bristol and Manchester she has become a teacher at Withington Girls ' School . |
| 16 | Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself . |
| 17 | She has become a hospital ‘ link worker ’ , interpreting for members of London 's Greek community who do n't speak English . |
| 18 | She has become a parody of herself , doomed to spend the rest of her life acting out her own mythical qualities . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've become a dreamer since you came back here and you 're not so careful about things . |
| 21 | Alright let everything go fine you 've become a sailor . |
| 22 | 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 . " |
| 23 | In the interim , she had become a bit ‘ bolshie ’ . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had become a golf fan when she had learned of my job and took a highly personal interest in Jack 's performances . |
| 29 | Finally , after long years , she had become a party-goer . |
| 30 | She had become a statue ; he hardly heeded her . |