Example sentences of "she had become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 2 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 3 | In the interim , she had become a bit ‘ bolshie ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | Chiefly she felt that , as in a sudden slip or subsidence , she had become a different person : a worse person , a desperate person , but powerful and free . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Very soon , she had become a sort of personal assistant , helping him select fabrics , cost dresses and choose accessories . |
| 9 | She had become a statue ; he hardly heeded her . |
| 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 | 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 . " |
| 12 | Constanza did n't protest , she had become a … subdued agnostic . |
| 13 | Finally , after long years , she had become a party-goer . |
| 14 | With a shake of her eight great sails , she had become a mother in her own right , and we were all her children . |
| 15 | She had become a very beautiful young woman . |
| 16 | I could say nothing to Lollo , she had become a silent , horrible , raw red thing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 21 | As for his former wife , Aahmes , she had become a shadowy figure who sent him a letter from the Delta every new year , at the midsummer opet festival , with news of his favourite son , Heby . |
| 22 | Leo was right ; she had become a hermit . |
| 23 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |