Example sentences of "he become more [coord] " in BNC.

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1 This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse .
2 Eliot now tended to be interested in anthropology mainly when it contributed to a Christian perspective , so that while he would maintain that ‘ the actual religion of no European people has ever been purely Christian , or purely anything else ’ since ‘ There are always bits and traces of more primitive faiths , more or less absorbed ’ , he became more and more interested in relating such faiths to Christian problems .
3 He did n't mind at first but when he kept bumping into sculptures of boats , animals or castles he became more and more frustrated .
4 In his spare time he became more and more interested in amateur dramatics , as well as teaching himself to play the violin .
5 The Sergeant stood fifty yards away from us and made us repeat those two lines again and again until our voices were hoarse ; as our singing got worse , he became more and more frustrated and threw stones at us .
6 Bob and Jannie teased Dyson all the way through dinner , and he became more and more irritated .
7 He became more and more wrapped up in himself .
8 As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit .
9 He became more and more obsessed with his own kingship and the importance of his direct succession from Cyrus .
10 This sudden acquisition of wealth finally put paid to White 's writing career and he became more and more morose and more openly homosexual .
11 As the conflict with the king developed , he became more and more involved with the opposition .
12 He became more and more in love with the beauty of his face , more and more interested in the ugliness of his soul .
13 He both hated it and loved it , and he became more and more afraid that someone would discover his secret .
14 From the time of the marriage he cut himself off entirely from his brother , but it was n't only from Matthew : he became more and more of a recluse until now he hardly sees anyone but the people he meets in the course of his business — and they 're getting fewer by the month .
15 But as he walked , he became more and more convinced that he would also have to tell him about Surere .
16 He became more and more secretive as the years went by .
17 He became more and more depressed , and sought consolation in the local pub , where he was soon well known as a talkative character .
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