Example sentences of "[vb past] become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |
| 2 | Johnson finds fault justifiably with Woodhouse 's early verse ; however , Woodhouse did become a good poet , though there is no reason why Johnson should have foreseen this . |
| 3 | Morton reflected that if , indeed , he ever did become a royal photographer , life would be much duller for his acquaintances . |
| 4 | And he did become a chief inspector in eight years . |
| 5 | Marriage perhaps played a less important part in the network of Rational Dissent in the late eighteenth century , though Josiah Wedgwood did become a relation by marriage to Sir James Mackintosh and thus in touch with the world of Brougham and the Edinburgh Review . |
| 6 | The popularity of programmes therefore did become a factor in BBC calculations in a qualitatively different way from previously . |
| 7 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
| 8 | He had a younger brother who went to Oxford as well and he did become a Communist . |
| 9 | On the other hand Edward II tried in vain to get Robert Baldock provided to Lichfield in 1321 , to Winchester in 1323 and to Norwich in 1325 ; Baldock never did become a bishop . |
| 10 | His hopes were realised , for the walk did become an annual event and the Hammond Trophy is still presented to the winner . |
| 11 | This is not to say that the emergence of more popularly-orientated styles of activity expressed a displacement of sectarian religious feeling but antislavery none the less did become an important channel for religious feeling which looked to a broader moral enhancement of English society and in turn that had to involve the full-hearted commitment of a myriad of individuals and groups . |
| 12 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 13 | But we can surely reconstruct the pattern of events whereby the lectures did become the basis of the book that in fact materialized . |