Example sentences of "[subord] he became [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He later worked on high-power magnetrons both at Birmingham and at SERL , Baldock , where he became a senior principal scientific officer . |
| 2 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 3 | In Toronto on that homeward trip I first met Ernest L. Bushnell who had come into radio as one-quarter of a male quartet and who rose in the ranks of Canadian radio until he became the top executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation some years later . |
| 4 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 5 | Ps. livingstonii — was one of my great loves in my early Mbuna-keeping days , probably because my male was not only a ‘ big softy ’ who caused me no trouble whatsoever , but also because he became a great pet . |
| 6 | A word about Corman is necessary here because he became an important link in the Nicholson story ; and not just Nicholson 's either . |
| 7 | The jokes have been flying thick and fast since he became a permanent fixture on Hallowe'en . |
| 8 | He admitted receiving a total of DM500,000 since he became a double agent in 1982 . |
| 9 | After he became a Communist , Neruda consciously tried to write a different kind of poetry incorporating a political message and which would be comprehensible to working people , the most famous and successful example of which is his Canto General . |
| 10 | Shortly after he became a primary school headmaster . |
| 11 | After he became a Christian , Lewis did completely change his view not only of his own personality but of human personality in general . |
| 12 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 13 | Mahler needed to become a conductor of other men 's music before he became a real composer . |
| 14 | But Portillo whose Spanish name meaning the narrow gate , is very citable to a man responsible for sanctioning public spending bids , would need a department of his own before he became a serious leadership candidate . |
| 15 | The drawing just pre-dated the wilder stories of Modigliani 's debauchery , before he became the established drunk of Montparnasse in the eyes of the world . |
| 16 | Could you tell me about when he became a Bevan boy ? |
| 17 | Jerry also earned three full International caps for Eire ( qualifying on his father 's nationality ) , but once the Palace began to lose their way his laconic and delicate style became on occasions at least , something of a luxury our side could ill-afford , and when he became a free agent in 1985 he chose to move over to Chelsea . |
| 18 | This was only changed when he became a Christian and was ‘ surprised by joy ’ . |
| 19 | There was plenty of praise and some prizes for Ben when he became the All British Champ . |
| 20 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 21 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 22 | My principal reason was a very subjective one : I had , as an undergraduate , met with and remained a firm friend of one of the leading Ibos , Sir Louis Mbanefo , who had been knighted by the British government when he became the Chief Justice of Eastern Nigeria . |
| 23 | But a kid who got out not through sport but through The Word , and who would n't forget this blessing , even when he became the Big Man . |
| 24 | Do you know , even when he became an ascetic and gave up the pomp of court , even when he fasted , the Blessed Thomas could not abstain from his cups of claret . ’ |
| 25 | He was working hard , yet he was hard up , and when he became an overnight star , he had appeared in close on twenty films , written six , co-produced three , and edited or assistant edited five . |
| 26 | Even his baptismal and family names have been lost through the monastic practice of using , together with his birthplace , the professional name he assumed when he became an Observant Hieronymite friar in San Isidoro , near Seville . |
| 27 | PURSUIT OF LOVE shot to 5–1 favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas , on May 2 , with an emphatic two-length victory in yesterday 's European Free Handicap as he became the 200th winner trained by Henry Cecil for Lord Howard de Walden . |
| 28 | The hunter from the Mendip Hills in Somerset smashed the track record as he became the first to complete the Cheltenham-Liverpool Foxhunters ' double since Grittar in 1981 . |
| 29 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |