Example sentences of "[noun sg] became [vb pp] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners . |
| 2 | The air above and beyond the ridge became filled with wind-swirled smoke and the echoes of distant blasts . |
| 3 | When William left school at about the age of twelve , he hoped to become a gardener but his skin became inflamed with constant outdoor work . |
| 4 | Another time the carburettor became clogged with sand , and a third time she simply ran out of fuel . |
| 5 | Nothing further seems to have transpired and the machinery continued to deteriorate , while the incline became overgrown with scrub . |
| 6 | Female menstrual blood became endowed with magical power and often it was harmful . |
| 7 | The negotiations on British entry became fused with a wider debate in 1960–3 about the future of the Community . |
| 8 | The future became filled with doubt . |
| 9 | Universality became identified with equality . |
| 10 | But a dark undercurrent of hostility to sexuality and marriage became interwoven with the more benign attitudes towards the body and sexuality current as late as the second century . |
| 11 | Through Cripps the campaign became linked with those favouring " Unity " of the Left . |
| 12 | The Tribune Group became stocked with Kinnock loyalists . |
| 13 | Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated . |
| 14 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 15 | Then one voice grew louder , piercing into his brain as his body became paralysed with shock and disbelief . |
| 16 | Occultism and oriental mysticism became fused with astrology , magic , cabbalistic elements from Jewish tradition , a pessimistic reading of Plato 's doctrine that man 's true home does not lie in this bodily realm , above all the catalyst of the Christian understanding of redemption in Christ . |
| 17 | More than a dozen vehicles became stranded on the hard shoulder — unable to move because their underside became clogged with tar and chippings . |
| 18 | By the end of the Old Kingdom , with the development of the worship of Osiris , the Horus king became identified with Horus , the son of Osiris . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Whatever its economic intent , the fact is that Mosley 's fascist movement became associated with the type of violence and anti-Semitism which had become the hallmark of European fascism . |
| 21 | A court in America has heard claims that a woman became infected with the virus after a visit to the dentist . |
| 22 | The island became covered with vegetation , fossils of which are sometimes found in the volcanic ashes . |
| 23 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 24 | That is how my life became linked with Modigliani one July night . |
| 25 | She stared down at the frothing white surf that slid past the ship 's side and fell into a reverie in which imaginings of her future life became mixed with memories of past days at Ballingolin . |
| 26 | For several decades , therefore , one important section of the working-class movement and one school of socialist thought became identified with an authoritarian — and for more than twenty years tyrannical — form of government . |
| 27 | If the problem of how divine spirit became entangled with human flesh in the person of Jesus , is intractable — so too is the problem of how human spirit relates to a lowly creature . |
| 28 | She spun round to face him with blazing blue eyes and then her head fell as the blue became blurred with tears , and pity for herself , for her mother and for the man she scarcely remembered came flooding with the tears that fell down her cheeks . |
| 29 | Good taste became associated with the expression of distance from the world of work , the practical or the natural world , and was termed ‘ refined ’ or ‘ cultivated ’ , being dissociated from that which could be regarded as ‘ cheap ’ ( 1970 : 112 ) . |
| 30 | Third , I shall examine how certain levels of attainment became associated with certain age groups , and what consequences this had . |