Example sentences of "i have become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become a skinny , sickly , snuffly bronchial child . |
| 2 | I had become a good and conscientious boy . |
| 3 | ‘ I had become a strong swimmer mainly to conquer fear . ’ |
| 4 | I had become a current affair — how odd ! |
| 5 | I would feel I had become a different person . |
| 6 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 7 | Since getting the equipment two years ago , I 've become an avid collector of compact discs — to a point little short of addiction . |
| 8 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
| 9 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |