Example sentences of "and [vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had great force of character , and had become a legend in his own lifetime . |
| 2 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 3 | By the winter of 1920–1 the application of compulsion to the workers and peasants had become absolutely counterproductive , and had become a factor in the general collapse of the economy facing the Bolsheviks . |
| 4 | By the time Rune had unclothed her completely Gina 's whole body knew the intimate touch of his mouth and hands and had become a conflagration of need for the ultimate knowledge of the man himself . |
| 5 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |
| 6 | William Penn , a son of the admiral who captured Jamaica , was a friend of the Duke of York and had become a Quaker of the quieter second generation that followed George Fox in his beliefs but not in his attacks on all symbols of the established order . |
| 7 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 8 | Gratitude because of the unhesitating generosity with which Doreen gave him the hospitality of her body ; responsibility because he had ceased to be a passing visitor to that body , taking what he could get , and had become a guest , leaving behind something as a token of their intimacy . |