Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly you 've become the thing you are : |
| 2 | Perhaps her cure took place while she was still at Hampole and the Office refers to her as a recluse because that is what she later became , or perhaps she had become an anchoress while still at Hampole . |
| 3 | Before long they had become settlers ; their children knew no other life . |
| 4 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 5 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 6 | She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her . |
| 7 | Apparently he had become addicted to it and the gradual disintegration of William was at last explained . |
| 8 | Apparently he had become nothing more than this , forage for commonplace family small talk . |
| 9 | Dot looked at it and was surprised to see how dirty it had become . |
| 10 | So it has become a fashion now . |
| 11 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 12 | So what has become of that other bulwark of partition , the unattractiveness of the republic to its Protestant neighbours ? |
| 13 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 14 | Already she had become exceedingly fond of him . |
| 15 | Meanwhile they have become involved in the bureau and staff have invested time introducing them to procedures . |
| 16 | Soon it had become one of the main topics of conversation . |
| 17 | Soon it had become a continuous deluge as if countless buckets of black ink were being emptied from the sky above them . |
| 18 | Meanwhile it had become apparent that similar flooding had occurred at Cushendall where the Red Bay inshore lifeboat is stationed and all the crew assembled at the lifeboat station . |
| 19 | Eventually she had become resigned to a dull , passionless existence ; her husband had masked his indifference to her real feelings with elaborate public courtesies , and her only role outside of motherhood had been to act as a decorative hostess at his political functions . |
| 20 | ( How quickly you 've become blasé . |
| 21 | By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings . |
| 22 | The novelty of such a situation will be more apparent if we compare with it what can be called the classical situation of the ancient world between 600 and 300 B.C. It has become a commonplace , after Karl Jaspers ' Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte — the first original book on history to appear in post-war Germany in 1949 — to speak of the Achsenzeit , of the axial age , which included the China of Confucius and Lao-Tse , the India of Buddha , the Iran of Zoroaster , the Palestine of the Prophets and the Greece of the philosophers , the tragedians and the historians . |
| 23 | And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence . |
| 24 | Effectively we 've become a low-waged , low-skilled economy with virtually no protection for many of our fellow workers . |
| 25 | Although he was still sufficiently trusted to be appointed as one of the young Edward 's guardians when the prince was sent abroad to do homage for his father 's French lands in September 1325 , a year later he had become one of the leading backers of Queen Isabella in her invasion of England . |
| 26 | Also he had become friendly with a Cockney man , older than he , who had been a french polisher and who now sold reproduction furniture to antique shops from a van . |
| 27 | In the mid eighties we invested our members money in a National Education Centre , and now ten years later it 's become a Conference Centre and a hotel and we 're not fully booked , can be used for training the stewards , along with the occasional Regional Council meeting for the Lancashire Region . |
| 28 | ‘ I am too small for all the steadfast love ’ ( that is a literal translation of the Hebrew , which is much more striking than our English versions ) ‘ and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant , for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan ; and now I have become two companies . ’ |
| 29 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 30 | Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself . |