Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] became a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon became a fan of these boots which remained comfortable and performed well . |
| 2 | I soon became a connoisseur of wood smoke . |
| 3 | In the end I too became a partner in the company . |
| 4 | Eric was going to do a trip around the world when he left Mayall , which eventually became a trip to Greece . |
| 5 | The rising was put down and so was the castle , which then became a source of building materials , a man-made quarry . |
| 6 | She later became a pupil of Margaret Charlwood and more recently has been taught by Vanessa Forbes and Brenda Morgan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility . |
| 9 | They inevitably became a stage for a Kenneth Williams one-man show . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It soon became a case of ‘ Advance Australia Fair ’ on almost every front . |
| 14 | I started on the full golf tour , but it soon became a choice of golf or my family . |
| 15 | It soon became a matter of urgency . |
| 16 | But he soon became a joke to most of us , because not only was he pedantic and patronizing , he was also frightened of what he 'd started and disliked suggestions for fear they implied that he was going wrong . |
| 17 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
| 18 | In 1969 he had been made assistant secretary to the Diocesan Schools Commission , becoming principal secretary three years later , he also became a member of the Finance Commission , and then in 1972 Bishop Wheeler appointed him his personal private secretary at Bishop 's House . |
| 19 | To further strengthen his cover , he also became a member of the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors , and attended its conference in Washington , taking advantage of the opportunity to confer with Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , who later took over as Control for Operation Shakespeare . |
| 20 | Brinson had by this stage , therefore , acquired a reputation of not being committed to any one institution , and enquiries pointed to him as a neutral Chairman of the new panel , which he was asked to chair , and by virtue of his chairmanship he also became a member of the Creative and Performing Arts Panel , and then Board . |
| 21 | He also became a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey [ qq.v . ] . |
| 22 | He later became a freeman of the Salters ' Company , like his father , but it is probable that his chief occupation was as a teacher of mathematics and accounting . |
| 23 | Johnny 's silky touches and ball playing skills , nurtured by the great Arthur Rowe , drew huge admiration from Palace fans and he inevitably became a target for the bigger clubs , but he was still with the Palace when he gained his first full England International cap ( against Northern Ireland at Wembley on 22 November 1961 ) and Palace 's first such honour in thirty-eight years . |
| 24 | For record companies , it now became a question of who could pay the most money to secure the most in-demand acts . |
| 25 | When the arrangement was revealed two weeks ago he immediately became a member of staff and said the advantage had amounted to only £810 a year . |
| 26 | Upon signing for us he immediately became a pillar of the Palace side and our leading scorer with 12 goals in 1954–55 , as Manager Cyril Spiers sought to introduce younger players to an ageing Palace staff . |
| 27 | While the contest was initially between reformist and hardline factions within the ruling PLA , it increasingly became a struggle against , as well as within the ruling party , culminating in widespread protests in December [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 28 | It then became a part of Lewisham , but obtained a separate entity as an Urban District on the 15 May 1900 . |
| 29 | The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope . |
| 30 | He then became a leader of the thakin group — thakin was the name given to a European , equivalent to sahib in India — and in 1940 fled from the country and was later joined by about thirty others . |