Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 2 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 3 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 4 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |
| 5 | This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa . |
| 6 | ‘ So what can I tell you ? ’ said Shorty to the umpteenth magazine interviewer who came to call , looking for the definitive analysis in the search for Jack Nicholson , once he had become a star . |
| 7 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
| 8 | They had really tired of each other and it had become a struggle between them that was slow to surface until the Diamond Dogs tour because a lot of things happened on that tour that they were both very unhappy about . |
| 9 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 10 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 11 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 12 | He went on talking of peace , but he had become a man who had allowed Britain 's major industry to be decimated and embittered . |
| 13 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 14 | Most children would rather learn about Julius Caesar who was a real person with a long nose , killed by his own friends because he had become a dictator , than study the rise of Meroe or Axum which have little interest to an eleven-year-old . |
| 15 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 16 | Soviet authorities persecuted the Lithuanian Catholic Church more harshly than those in the other Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia — which the Pope is also visiting — because it had become a rallying point against the communist government . |
| 17 | Right-wing UNO parties had consistently demanded Ortega 's dismissal , especially since he had become a mainstay of the government . |
| 18 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |