Example sentences of "[adv] he became a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his family began to grow , money was hard to come by so he became a clerk for his family and John cannily gave dressmaking work to his new daughter-in-law to help them survive whilst getting good value for money for himself . |
| 2 | According to his own account , as soon as he was brought to Rome as a hostage in 167 B.C. he became a friend of the two surviving sons of Aemilius Paulus by sharing some books with them . |
| 3 | Thereafter he became a missionary of heathen Africa , wrote a seminal alchemical text called the Clavicula , and was reputed to turn himself into a red cock when occasion demanded . |
| 4 | Appointed as vicar of St Paul 's , Worcester , in 1914 , a year later he became a chaplain to the armed forces and began the wartime ministry among the troops in France and Flanders for which he is most remembered . |
| 5 | Later he became a director of the club and built the small chapel behind the groundsman 's hut where visiting supporters could find ‘ quiet contemplation and a cup of Bovril ( 58p ) ’ . |
| 6 | Later he became an assistant to the composer Benjamin Britten and was a pianist for several ballet companies , including the Stuttgart company in Germany and Sadler 's Wells in London . |
| 7 | He returned within a year to a different job as a threader and then ten years later he became an Axminster weaver once again . |
| 8 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 9 | He acquired a small capital by scavenging and became a pedlar ; then he became a partner in a ship ; and his skill as a sailor and his fondness for travel took him to Scotland and Italy , to Denmark and Flanders . |
| 10 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
| 11 | Then he became an agent . |
| 12 | There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) . |
| 13 | Overnight he became a director of Matrix . |
| 14 | Twice he became a tutor , but he neglected his work . |
| 15 | Instead he became a pupil of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] and was engaged on the construction of railway lines in central Scotland and elsewhere . |
| 16 | Instead he became an alcoholic ( a ‘ half-alcoholic ’ he preferred to call it ) who required to dry-out in hospital about 50 times over a 25-year period . |
| 17 | He could hurt those who cared most about him — his parents when he became a monk and Mirfield when he followed his resignation with a national television account of what was personal and private . |
| 18 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 19 | ‘ Gooseneck says he was pretty dotty even fifteen years ago , when he became a resident , and that he 's just got more so . |
| 20 | Prima facie these are the rules in force at the time when he became a member . |
| 21 | Evelyn abstained from the Commons after Pride 's Purge in 1648 , and went into retirement until the return of the secluded MPs to the Long Parliament in February 1660 , when he became a councillor of state . |
| 22 | At the time when he became a professor , his reputation probably depended largely on his studies of the capillary circulation and of the blood cells concerned with defence against bacterial invasion . |
| 23 | His period of study lasted to the age of thirty when he became a Doctor of the Law . |
| 24 | SCOTS comedian Robbie Coltrane , 42 , was taken by surprise yesterday when he became a father for the first time . |
| 25 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 26 | When he took his BA at Oxford Wren 's forename was Percy ; during his years in the IES he changed this to Percival , and it was only when he became an author that he added Christopher . |
| 27 | In 1926 , when he became an ambulance driver at Ormskirk workhouse ‘ conditions were not tip-top ’ . |
| 28 | In 1945 he went to live in France , where he became a member of the PCE central committee , returning to Spain in July 1976 . |
| 29 | He was ordained to a curacy in Kent , where he became a friend of Thomas Brett [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | If the cricket analogy is appropriate , then Saunders was hit for six during much of his ill-fated spell at Anfield where he became a scapegoat for the club 's ills . |