Example sentences of "[coord] became [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat back against a pine-stem and became lost in the pamphlet . |
| 2 | She shuddered as convulsively as he did , and became lost in the same giant whirlpool of pleasure . |
| 3 | When protection turned to annexation Russia faced Georgian resistance and became involved in a long if relatively untaxing war with Persia ( 1804–13 ) . |
| 4 | He remained in the north as elder of a Durham Baptist congregation and became involved in a lengthy dispute with the Baptist minister at Hexham , Thomas Tillam . |
| 5 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 6 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 7 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 8 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 9 | Robertson realized that the improvement of communications throughout the area was a pressing need , and became involved in the construction of many of the railway lines on both sides of the Welsh border , including the North Wales Mineral Railway which served the Brymbo ironworks , the GWR Shrewsbury to Hereford line , the LNWR central Wales line from Craven Arms to Llandovery , the Ruabon to Dolgelly line , and the branch to Bala and Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 10 | Through them she met Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v. ] and her daughters , and became involved in the women 's suffrage movement . |
| 11 | Frances Almond and Rata Horton ( who joined the staff of the Medau College in Germany for one year in 1966 ) both moved to Norfolk in 1963 and became involved in the Training programme . |
| 12 | This fact reminds me of a tale I was told in the States recently whereby President Clinton and his wife Hilary and Major Kay drove into a garage , quite why this was necessary the tale does not relate , as the petrol or gas attendant began to fill up the limousine , Hilary Clinton leaped out of the car and became involved in an animated conversation with the petrol attendant . |
| 13 | Peter emigrated to Australia some 20 years ago from Leicester and at this time picked up an old copy of Bradshaws and became interested in the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 14 | It sold 2000 copies in 10 days and became fourth in the list of Victorian best-sellers , beaten only by The Bible , Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 15 | Relations between the two gradually deteriorated during the reign of Charles II and became severe in the reign of his successor , James II . |
| 16 | In institutional practice , ‘ English ’ in public schools tended to be marginal and somewhat disregarded , but became central in the culture of the grammar schools , in ways adumbrated and advocated in the Newbolt Report . |
| 17 | The issue had long exercised the evangelicals but became central in the 1830s and 1840s , coinciding in fact with the crisis of the domestic system in textile areas . |
| 18 | Palmer originally specialised in acoustics but became interested in the physics of the Earth and in measuring ages by radiocarbon dating . |