Example sentences of "become so " in BNC.
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| 1 | His neck and shoulders gradually became so stiff that he had to turn in one piece from the waist up . |
| 2 | The BeSHT became so influential that the leaders of the people , the power-manipulators and self-appointed guardians of the Law , had no alternative but to do what their like has always done to those who broke loose , butterfly-like : They excommunicated him ; marginalised his usefulness ; neutered his religious potency : ‘ A prophet is not without honour … ’ |
| 3 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 4 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 5 | Along with Francois Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and other contributors , he became a director himself , and the brilliance of their early work was one of the reasons their views became so firmly enshrined . |
| 6 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 7 | Matters became so serious that in August 1979 Sir Maurice Oldfield , the former Chief of MI6 — and model for John Le Carre 's fictional spy master George Smiley — was sent to Northern Ireland to cover the differences between MI6 , MI5 , Army intelligence and the RUC . |
| 8 | On the negative side it should be recalled that many Belorussian nationalists were more pro-Western than specifically Belorussian in their emphasis , while many others became so identified with the Bolshevik Party that they shed earlier inclinations . |
| 9 | That was probably another of the reasons why they became so obsessed with loyalty , with the idea that you were part of some élite squad . |
| 10 | Behind them she could work with a charm and singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes . |
| 11 | I became so quiet and lonely and sometimes I did n't even want to see my husband ( after my daughter was born and when she was a baby ) . |
| 12 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 13 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 14 | The clash between Balcon 's nationalism and the Ostrers ' requirement that he pursue international popularity led to the signs of strain that are evident in much of the Gaumont-British output , and it is easy to understand why Balcon became so disillusioned with the idea of international production . |
| 15 | They became so celebrated that they were disturbed by tourists . |
| 16 | Comfortable and friendly , it is a broader , homelier version of the ‘ Queen Anne ’ style , which had been conceived over thirty years earlier by the great Richard Norman Shaw , and which eventually became so settled and familiar in suburban streets throughout England . |
| 17 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 18 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 19 | That night the air in the basement room became so thick it was like inhaling the black tar they put on the road . |
| 20 | The rule became so many things to me — |
| 21 | During the third century synodical government became so developed that synods used to meet not merely at times of crisis but on a regular basis every year , normally between Easter and Pentecost . |
| 22 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 23 | O'Boyle eventually became so worried by the secret nature of |
| 24 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 25 | Over and over she asked the questions and became so demented by them that , though she trembled with indignation , she once more went into the Casa Guidi and , controlling herself as best she could , asked to see her old mistress . |
| 26 | Car theft became so common that private cars virtually disappeared from the area . |
| 27 | At his recommendation , the uniform of the British Army was changed to khaki which became so familiar in the subsequent world wars , |
| 28 | During the winter of 1892 , it is recorded that the weather became so cold that the River Thames froze over at Chiswick . |
| 29 | Thus when villages became so reduced in size that they were no longer viable their inhabitants had to move out to nearby larger settlements . |
| 30 | Soon the room became so hot with the heat of the lamps , pupils had to strip down to their shirt sleeves and wear shorts when entering the room . |