Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] became a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also became a university student in the days when it was axiomatic that higher education was ‘ free ’ . |
| 2 | Fire broke out in an old , litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yvonne joined the class , became ‘ hooked ’ and herself eventually became a Medau teachers . |
| 6 | He thus became a gutter urchin who haunted the London waterfront . |
| 7 | Its forgiving nature and subsequent popularity proved to be the Kiwi 's downfall however : ordinary palates quickly developed a taste for it too and , from being a deli or specialist greengrocery item , requiring hours to track down ( note the vital equation : time to spare + money to spare = status ) it quickly became a supermarket staple in the expanding section of exotics . |
| 8 | It was severely under-funded , and it quickly became a horse infirmary primarily , and a teaching body secondarily . |
| 9 | As a successful town , it is not unlikely that it also became a pagus centre for part of the Dobunni and additionally the residence of the regionarius mentioned above ( p. 34 ) . |
| 10 | His descent continued : his job talking rubes into a San Francisco strip-club was his most reputable career during a period in which he also became a heroin addict , a pimp for his next bride and an armed robber ( he once pinned a victim 's hand to the floor with a knife ) . |
| 11 | More in love with art than an artist himself , he later became a museum curator . |
| 12 | He inevitably became a sunset watcher ; there was nothing else to do . |
| 13 | It then became a committee affair , with monthly meetings starting in February . |
| 14 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 15 | The one Non-Conformist chapel referred to in the article has been saved because it subsequently became a parish church and thus qualified for the fund . |
| 16 | Straw plaiting was a widespread cottage industry in and around the Chiltern Hills , but it has left scarcely a sign on the landscape , for it never became a factory industry . |