Example sentences of "he [vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the Ptolemaic Period he had become a god of healing and thus was associated with Imhotep in the Theban temples of Deir el-Medina and Deir el-Bahri . |
| 2 | In the event , he had become a Newfoundlander ; but in any case the Yeomanry 's long sojourn in Tunisia would not have satisfied him . |
| 3 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 4 | He had become a major in the military at twenty four and achieved much in the world in prosperity and position , but it had been an uphill climb . |
| 5 | He had become a kind of totem ; his extraordinary authority was based on that . |
| 6 | By now he had become a Test cricketer , having played in three of the exciting 1960–61 Tests against West Indies ( and substituted in the field in the tied Test at Brisbane , his first , at Melbourne , being the 500th Test match , and bringing him poignantly what were to remain best batting and bowling performances in an eight-Test career . |
| 7 | Associates were shocked by the transformation , and joked that he had become a plain-clothes policeman . |
| 8 | ‘ But he had started to drink heavily in recent months and Bernard felt he had become a liability . |
| 9 | By 1652 he had become a member of a syndicate engaged in victualling the navy . |
| 10 | He had become a hero for the garrison , for English and native defenders alike . |
| 11 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 12 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 13 | He went on talking of peace , but he had become a man who had allowed Britain 's major industry to be decimated and embittered . |
| 14 | Right-wing UNO parties had consistently demanded Ortega 's dismissal , especially since he had become a mainstay of the government . |
| 15 | Most children would rather learn about Julius Caesar who was a real person with a long nose , killed by his own friends because he had become a dictator , than study the rise of Meroe or Axum which have little interest to an eleven-year-old . |
| 16 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 17 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 18 | What they wanted to hear was why he had become a Muslim . |
| 19 | And in that instant , he realised he had become a DEEP . |
| 20 | Wei 's severe sentence shocked many people ; he had become a dissident almost overnight and few believed he had ‘ passed on state secrets to foreign powers ’ , as accused at his trial . |
| 21 | This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa . |
| 22 | Now , he had become a peacemaker , and he was encouraging a truce between the Bloods and the Crips , who had shot at one another for years . |
| 23 | ‘ So what can I tell you ? ’ said Shorty to the umpteenth magazine interviewer who came to call , looking for the definitive analysis in the search for Jack Nicholson , once he had become a star . |
| 24 | He had become a figure of legend . |
| 25 | He had become a stage manager and officer of the Minnehaha Minstrels . |
| 26 | It was his great-grandson — the first Henry Overton Wills — who moved to Bristol where by 1786 he had become a partner in a tobacco business . |
| 27 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |
| 28 | In a telephone interview with the government-run radio station , Mr Chen Jun claimed he had become a victim of political games between the Chinese and Hong Kong Governments . |
| 29 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 30 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |