Example sentences of "when he became a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hurt those who cared most about him — his parents when he became a monk and Mirfield when he followed his resignation with a national television account of what was personal and private . |
| 2 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 3 | ‘ Gooseneck says he was pretty dotty even fifteen years ago , when he became a resident , and that he 's just got more so . |
| 4 | Prima facie these are the rules in force at the time when he became a member . |
| 5 | Evelyn abstained from the Commons after Pride 's Purge in 1648 , and went into retirement until the return of the secluded MPs to the Long Parliament in February 1660 , when he became a councillor of state . |
| 6 | At the time when he became a professor , his reputation probably depended largely on his studies of the capillary circulation and of the blood cells concerned with defence against bacterial invasion . |
| 7 | His period of study lasted to the age of thirty when he became a Doctor of the Law . |
| 8 | SCOTS comedian Robbie Coltrane , 42 , was taken by surprise yesterday when he became a father for the first time . |
| 9 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |