Example sentences of "and become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Brighton College Woods went on to Jesus College , Cambridge , and became a cricket blue in 1886 and captain of the university XI in 1890 . |
| 2 | He qualified as a doctor in 1946 and became a Master of Orthopaedic Surgery in Liverpool in 1953 . |
| 3 | Macijauskas himself is from the second city and former capital , Kaunas which is where he worked with the local branch of the society , won some competitions and became a newspaper reporter . |
| 4 | According to Pepys ' Diary , he was educated at Westminster School , and became a scholar of Christ Church , Oxford , in 1652 . |
| 5 | HE was at his best and became a farmer once more . |
| 6 | He sensed her bewilderment and became a shoulder for her to lean on and sometimes to cry on during this painful period . |
| 7 | He took silk on 26 November 1784 and became a bencher on 25 January 1785 , reader in 1790 , and treasurer in 1791 . |
| 8 | He was admitted to Gray 's Inn 1 November 1604 , was called to the bar 26 June 1617 , and became a bencher in 1627 . |
| 9 | Consequently we 've been greatly concerned by the government 's delay in bringing forward this legislation which was adopted in draft on the twenty third of June nineteen ninety three and became a council directive on the sixth of December nineteen ninety three . |
| 10 | The eldest son inherited Dorney and became a country gentleman , but John , the third son , followed his father as a city merchant and , in 1601 , lord mayor . |
| 11 | The final realization of the New Depression , brought quietly into the world in May 1979 , with the unsuspecting British electorate as midwife and the Thatcher government as proud foster-parent ( the natural parents are holed up even now in the boardrooms of the multi-national corporations ) , coincided with rumblings of some significance from the separate continental plates of the fashion world : after a decade in the doldrums ‘ fashion ’ was born again and became a word once more in general use . |
| 12 | In September 1627 he was licensed to preach anywhere in London , and became a lecturer at St Antholin 's and All Hallows ' , Lombard Street . |
| 13 | He started out at 15 as a copyboy for the Yorkshire Evening News and became a reporter with the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette before his 16th birthday . |
| 14 | The Model Railways and Locomotives magazine was founded by him in 1908 and became a platform from which he could share his knowledge and expertise with others . |
| 15 | And became a warmth , a safeness ; loosening , healing . |
| 16 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | The book , which was published in 1986 and became a best-seller , was written with Americans Ken Smith , Michael Wilkes and Doug Kirby after several years of research . |
| 18 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 19 | Steven Jobs built his own computer company from scratch and became a multimillionaire before his thirtieth birthday . |
| 20 | AT&T 's eagerness to identify with an artist who ran away , scrawled graffiti on walls , and became a drug addict may have little to do with the quest for positive ‘ role models ’ now popular in the United States . |
| 21 | Out of the earth came a scrubland , and this scrubland grew and became a wood . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ He came to live near us in Darlington in 1986 and became a regular at the church lunch club . |
| 23 | It was at university under the tutelage of Maurice Cowling and others that he changed his political views and became a believer in Friedmanite economics . |
| 24 | To them I was just another recruit , and if I did well , got myself through the first six months and became a legionnaire , then I would matter to them because I would be part of their system . |
| 25 | My parents died when I was twenty , my sister moved up to Lancashire and became a nurse and got married , and that was the family gone . |
| 26 | His own son , William 's son , who was called erm moved out into the country , married an heiress and became a gentleman with a coat of arms . |
| 27 | He also developed a slightly aggressive attitude , and became a bit short-tempered at times . |
| 28 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 29 | He joined Securicor two years ago and became a guard at this warehouse in Milton Keynes . |
| 30 | All the more remarkable then that in 1829 , a born-deaf person with no speech was called to the Bar and became a barrister . |