Example sentences of "[Wh pn] became a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mentor during the stay was the Secretary of State for Wales , George Thomas ( later created Lord Tonypandy ) , who became a lifelong friend as a result . |
| 2 | EDMUND Garvey was an old-fashioned policeman who became a controversial head of the Irish Republic 's force during one of its most turbulent periods . |
| 3 | This was All McDowell who became a close friend of mine , founded i-D magazine and coined the phrase ‘ Fuck Art : Let's Dance . ’ |
| 4 | In those years , he visited Vienna and met one of Meli 's relatives , Lotti Meitner-Graf — who became a firm friend of the couple . |
| 5 | He , and his twin brother James , who became a successful farmer in Logie in Aberdeenshire , were the second and third of the five children of Alexander Gordon , tenant farmer of Miltown of Drum . |
| 6 | John was succeeded by his son , John Fitzjohn [ q.v. ] , who became a leading supporter of Simon of Montfort . |
| 7 | Hyndman , who became a patriotic supporter of a war to which most British Marxists were opposed . |
| 8 | Soon afterwards , his daughter married an Englishman called Sevier , a Director of the Siberian Bank and they had a son , Alfred Hynam Sevier , who became a medical practitioner to the Court . |
| 9 | From 1841 her childhood was spent near the centre of Manchester , though her father , who became a senior partner in his Manchester shipping firm , prospered and was in 1855 able to move to the far more select area of Whalley Range . |
| 10 | The resulting expansion in business necessitated the formation of a partnership with his young associate Guy Green , who became a full partner in 1763 . |