Example sentences of "became as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invaders swiftly became as Irish as the rest of us . |
| 2 | When Wales won the Triple Crown in 1988 with a team who had amble development left in them , the future looked bright ; then came a calamitous tour of New Zealand followed by sundry other mishaps and the outlook became as dark as an All Black jersey . |
| 3 | The bird 's flapping became as frantic as a wind-up toy 's for a few seconds , but this quickly petered out and its body became limp . |
| 4 | Steel threaded through her muscles , and her senses became as sharp as a cat 's . |
| 5 | Anyway , I became as drunk as a vicar . |
| 6 | I hugged a tree-trunk , and became as thin as a Blue Gillette . |
| 7 | Her face became as bright as an icon as if she had momentarily glimpsed the old customs of Irkutsk : a bridal party bearing skates of bone and bodices of the finest needle-point standing on the southern shore and looking across Baikal ; a sallow-faced groom from Chita smoothing his first moustache and pacing the deck of an ice-locked paddle-steamer . |
| 8 | After a few months of getting the house in order , Elaine became as restless as the stereotyped male executive and persuaded Louise to move out into the country . |
| 9 | So far removed was it , both in time and in temper , from the realities of a large city parish and the growing bewilderment and tribulation that the first two decades of the new century had visited upon its inhabitants that his birthplace and its memories became as insubstantial as the tales of Cuchullain and the Red Branch Knights that he had read about in school . |