Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] became a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon became a man and learned how to do it properly … |
| 2 | I soon became a fan of these boots which remained comfortable and performed well . |
| 3 | I soon became a connoisseur of wood smoke . |
| 4 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 5 | I also became a university student in the days when it was axiomatic that higher education was ‘ free ’ . |
| 6 | I nearly became a murderess tonight . |
| 7 | In the end I too became a partner in the company . |
| 8 | Eric was going to do a trip around the world when he left Mayall , which eventually became a trip to Greece . |
| 9 | Fire broke out in an old , litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished . |
| 10 | Silently Joshua returned his stare , then made what sounded like a snort which quickly became a chuckle until finally he exploded into outright laughter . |
| 11 | She built one palace in Parma and another , a sort of miniature Versailles , not far from the Po at Colorno , which later became a lunatic asylum . |
| 12 | For at seven o'clock in the morning of 20 August in that year , the inscription has it , just as the citadel was about to fall to the besiegers , a white cross was seen in the sky ‘ above and to the right of the town ’ , which then became a crucifix whose crown turned encouragingly ( for the French ) into a royal fleur-de-lis . |
| 13 | The rising was put down and so was the castle , which then became a source of building materials , a man-made quarry . |
| 14 | Accordingly , she went on to play primarily on the Yiddish stage , where , with her impish manner and tiny build — her toes , she said , never reached the end of her stockings — she soon became a star . |
| 15 | Rhoda had a brother called Tom , a very pleasant young man who also became a preacher , but not for long because , unfortunately , he died young . |
| 16 | She later became a pupil of Margaret Charlwood and more recently has been taught by Vanessa Forbes and Brenda Morgan . |
| 17 | Ram deities included Herishef of Heracleopolis , who temporarily became a state god in the Ninth and Tenth Dynasties , and Khnum of Elephantine , the creator with his potter 's wheel . |
| 18 | Clover Roope , who later became a dancer , remembers going there to take lessons from a governess she shared with John 's stepsisters , and described how absolutely devoted she and they were to this young man with ‘ a fantastic nose and fantastic eyes and this rather long , lanky figure , who was not really a dancer and not really yet a choreographer , but gave the sense already that here was somebody important . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Sijaona , an influential and outspoken backbencher who later became a minister , said this in 1961 , and it was a theme taken up by others on a number of occasions : |
| 20 | It is worthy of notice that one of the owners of the Van Lead Mines , which gave rise to the railway , was William Lefaux , who later became a director of the BCR . |
| 21 | The latter writes that he was a muderris in Bursa who then became a kadi , at which point Molla Fenari went to study under Kara Hoca in Iznik . |
| 22 | Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility . |
| 23 | She too became a victim , but to many of the young , observing from out in the sticks , far even from the world of CND , she was a victor . |
| 24 | Yvonne joined the class , became ‘ hooked ’ and herself eventually became a Medau teachers . |
| 25 | The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze . |
| 26 | They inevitably became a stage for a Kenneth Williams one-man show . |
| 27 | So , certain interests , but only certain interests , came to enjoy a quasi-legal status so that they almost became a part of the state and governing institutions in their own right . |
| 28 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 29 | Sceptics argued that there was no real difference between a right and a duty ; once it was laid down when auditors would be expected to use their right to report , it effectively became a duty . |
| 30 | It only became a god in Hellenistic times when it was worshipped under the name ‘ Aion ’ , but that signified a sacred , eternal time which was very different from ordinary time , chronos . |