Example sentences of "[vb base] become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've become a dreamer since you came back here and you 're not so careful about things . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've become a travelling circus ’ , said David Campese , ‘ moving around the world without taking a real break . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've become a cult figure over the past 18 months , I have respect now ; people do n't walk up in the street and say ‘ Hi Chris ’ and clap me on the shoulder . |
| 4 | Leaning forward in the rattan chair , on the after deck , he said , ‘ I tell you , Doctor ’ — he always addressed me thus , showing the respect of one professional man for another ‘ in over thirty years at sea I 've become a specialist in islands . |
| 5 | In the past few months , I 've become a housewife . |
| 6 | You 'll get much more out of the tutorial and feel you " belong " , once you 've become a regular contributing member of the learning group . |
| 7 | Great God , I 've become a bore . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 9 | Effectively we 've become a low-waged , low-skilled economy with virtually no protection for many of our fellow workers . |
| 10 | Alright let everything go fine you 've become a sailor . |
| 11 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 12 | And suddenly you 've become the thing you are : |
| 13 | You 've become the executioner , Dexter . |
| 14 | A couple say they may move out of their house just two weeks after moving in because they 've become the target of thieves . |
| 15 | Oxfam aid workers say they 've become the new targets in the war in Somalia . |
| 16 | With some miniatures worth as much as five thousand pounds , they 've become the target of thieves who steal them to order for people who want exotic pets . |
| 17 | And once you 've become an Abbey National mortgage customer , you wo n't be forgotten . |
| 18 | Have you ever thought , ruefully , that far from raising an obedient child you 've become an obedient parent ? |
| 19 | Since getting the equipment two years ago , I 've become an avid collector of compact discs — to a point little short of addiction . |
| 20 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ I forgot , you 've become an ostrich , of course , like all the rest . |
| 22 | Then , at the beginning of this week , the ANC and a group of South African academics and businessmen chose London as the scene of the latest in the series of black-white encounters which have become a regular feature of South African political life , while Mrs Thatcher gave interviews to four leading black journalists . |
| 23 | Mr Zhao 's fate , and by association his legacy , have become a big bone of contention in the leadership . |
| 24 | Partly , though , it shows the degeneration of a world view according to which the conventionally ‘ romantic ’ tropics , strangely remote world of the ‘ breadfruit , banyan , palmleaf ’ have become a place |
| 25 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 26 | Still in the Wrenish mood , the roof is slightly more hipped than at South Luffenham , and the swans ’ necks over the door have become a purely classical pediment . |
| 27 | We human beings ourselves have become a threat to our planet . |
| 28 | The flame-belching fires and smoke of the great Nova Huta steelworks at Krakow in Poland have become a stock shot of television coverage of Eastern Europe 's environmental crisis , a begrimed image of what was once an icon of progress . |
| 29 | They have become a symbol , along with rainbows , of the dawning of a new age of Aquarius , when qualities of love , peace , and harmony have their renaissance on the earth . |
| 30 | Few can rival the Natural History Museum 's offer of drinks beneath its dinosaur , but Christmas and new-year parties have become a nice little earner for museums and galleries right across the country . |