Example sentences of "that [pers pn] became " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake . |
| 2 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 3 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 4 | It was during this incident that I became aware of Husseys Hatches , as the Fire Brigade used the water from one of these , nearly opposite the Brown Street Baptist Church . |
| 5 | I was overlooked repeatedly , to such an extent that I became completely disgusted . |
| 6 | It also meant that I became much more familiar with the area I lived in and the people around . ’ |
| 7 | It was through her that I became interested in life . |
| 8 | Cardinal Newman wrote in his Apologia pro vita sua , ‘ From the time that I became a Catholic … |
| 9 | By half-term I weighed seven stone nine pounds , and I suspect it was only then that I became weight-conscious in the literal sense . |
| 10 | It was only in 1977 that I became even vaguely aware of gay liberation . |
| 11 | That I became a more understanding teacher was very much due to Basil and the tradition which he had established . |
| 12 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 13 | It is not true , as Lady Falkender has stated , that I became a visitor when George Wigg ceased to visit . |
| 14 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 15 | In fact she was so kind to me that I became brave enough to ask a question . |
| 16 | Erm the work that I became , as it happened , mostly concerned with was the erm granting of major scholarships as they were then called which subsequently became called County Awards and er which were attainable in those days only at universities |
| 17 | Have you forgotten that I became President through People Power ? |
| 18 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 19 | I have over the years sent my postal order regularly and it was n't until two years ago that I became more actively involved in the work of Save The Children fund raising . |
| 20 | ‘ It was because kids at Thornaby came up to me in barefeet that I became a socialist , ’ she says . |
| 21 | It was when the novelty had worn off , when the days grew short , when earlier and earlier the curtains were drawn against the dark silence outside , that she became restless . |
| 22 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
| 23 | When that happened , however , there would at least be the compensation that she became the first of them to have her power formally acknowledged with the title of regent . |
| 24 | A one-time Italian band singer , Donald Forcillo-Rose , came out of the woodwork in October 1980 to claim that he and June were lovers when she was just sixteen and he was twenty-six , and that she became pregnant . |
| 25 | She needed a little experience here in the provinces first , of course , just enough to give her finesse and confidence , not too much so that she became jaded , and then … |
| 26 | I suppose she was so grateful that she became one of his flock . |
| 27 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
| 28 | So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion . |
| 29 | Slowly Sara began to see why it was that her mother was so proud of her nationality , for there was something about these simple Portuguese mariners that inspired confidence and trust , so that she became increasingly sure that her decision to leave home and marry João had been well judged . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ answered Raffaella and then went on to tell Julia with no self-consciousness at all that she became a prostitute in Rome , where the dollar-rich American soldiers were prepared to pay a small fortune to a good-looking , elegant girl . |