Example sentences of "that [pers pn] became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By half-term I weighed seven stone nine pounds , and I suspect it was only then that I became weight-conscious in the literal sense . |
| 2 | In fact she was so kind to me that I became brave enough to ask a question . |
| 3 | It was through her that I became interested in life . |
| 4 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 5 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 6 | It was during this incident that I became aware of Husseys Hatches , as the Fire Brigade used the water from one of these , nearly opposite the Brown Street Baptist Church . |
| 7 | She needed a little experience here in the provinces first , of course , just enough to give her finesse and confidence , not too much so that she became jaded , and then … |
| 8 | He took such a long time to answer that she became convinced that he had n't . |
| 9 | A one-time Italian band singer , Donald Forcillo-Rose , came out of the woodwork in October 1980 to claim that he and June were lovers when she was just sixteen and he was twenty-six , and that she became pregnant . |
| 10 | Another woman returning from feira ( market ) tells you that she became dizzy , confused and ‘ nervous ’ at the price of meat . |
| 11 | So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion . |
| 12 | It was when the novelty had worn off , when the days grew short , when earlier and earlier the curtains were drawn against the dark silence outside , that she became restless . |
| 13 | I was never much use at school work , but he said that did n't matter , what was important was finding something and doing it so that you became good at it , better than the others , and that made you a person , gave you something they did n't have . |
| 14 | What about erm how was it that you became involved in erm was it Having looked round the shop erm is it you specialize in is erm fish |
| 15 | by Guy Mountfort Vice President , WWF-UK I first met Peter Scott some forty years ago , but it was not until the creation of WWF that we became close colleagues . |
| 16 | Yet it was from our jottings and provisional attempts to express and solve problems that we became able to formalise our thoughts and write coherently about our work . |
| 17 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |
| 18 | His lips were so thick that they met the end of his nose and so wide that they became lost in his side-whiskers . |
| 19 | However , this did not suggest that they became pregnant by default or because they had nothing else to do , rather motherhood was a central focus of their lives ( Phoenix , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | It all developed from techniques — routine methods of doing the basic fundamentals so that they became automatic . |
| 21 | The Minoan priests and priestesses became so expert in this art that they became famous for it throughout the Aegean world . |
| 22 | er , I , I ca n't say that they became inaccurate , they may well have been entirely accurate for the whole of the period from when they were first produced through to September nineteen eighty six |
| 23 | It was not until two o'clock therefore that they became anxious enough to call him on his car telephone — only to find it had been switched off . |
| 24 | Despite the publicity giving the facts surrounding the transmission of the disease , ignorance was such that they became afraid of normal social contact . |
| 25 | Despite the publicity giving the facts surrounding the transmission of the disease , ignorance was such that they became afraid of normal social interaction . |
| 26 | Despite the publicity on transmission of the disease , ignorance was such that they became afraid to even visit me . |
| 27 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 28 | Even as he did so , the obstacle was removed because Jotan had dumped the hanks of haigus wool on the men from above so that they became entangled , tripped , and fell cursing . |
| 29 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 30 | That they became common then is a striking illustration of the rapid growth in the money economy in our period . |