Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | By now he had become a Test cricketer , having played in three of the exciting 1960–61 Tests against West Indies ( and substituted in the field in the tied Test at Brisbane , his first , at Melbourne , being the 500th Test match , and bringing him poignantly what were to remain best batting and bowling performances in an eight-Test career . |
| 4 | Yet it had become a point of honour not to tell him about Lori . |
| 5 | What they wanted to hear was why he had become a Muslim . |