Example sentences of "became [vb pp] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days and nights that followed this procession became filled with the ghostly rhythms of the Ma'badong dance a cumulative mantric tone intended to induce altered states , which most successfully we found , interfered with our capacity to keep a grip on the job of filming . |
| 2 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 3 | One day , to escape heavy rain he wandered into a tavern called the ‘ Spotted Dog ’ which was kept by Joe Parrish , a veteran fighter , who became impressed with the young lad — then aged 16 — and began to teach him the science of the ring . |
| 4 | It was while travelling around the world for the UN that she first became impressed with the simple forms of cosmetics made from natural ingredients used by remote communities . |
| 5 | Dositej entered the Hopovo monastery in the Fruška Gora at the age of sixteen , but he soon became disillusioned with the restricted life of a monk and two years later he escaped . |
| 6 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 7 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 8 | Through a project begun by West Yorkshire Archaeological Unit , Tony became connected with the Holy Wells Research and Preservation Group , and from there came the inspiration to revive a local tradition he had heard tales about since his childhood . |
| 9 | It became entwined with the separate dispute with ASLEF over flexible rostering , which the board had announced would be introduced from July with or without agreement . |
| 10 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 11 | Much in demand for stage and film productions , he became associated with the early musicals of Lloyd Webber and his then partner Tim Rice in the 1970s . |
| 12 | The years 1806–7 , however , marked the triumph of social as well as political respectability as more socially prominent names became associated with the African Institution and antislavery more generally . |
| 13 | During that period the great schism within Islam between sunni and shi'ite occurred , in which Egypt became associated with the former , as it has remained ever since . |
| 14 | Yet Walker also knew that railways were no longer omnipotent ; he became associated with the Great Western Railway in running a coach service to the west and acquired for his company a financial interest in Imperial Airways . |
| 15 | Sukarno was sent to Surabaya , where he experienced loneliness and sought shelter in the Theosophical Society library where he became acquainted with the great Europeans from Rousseau to Marx . |
| 16 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |