But when I had become expert at this visualized game of memory the exercise palled on me.
But it was not until my fourth year on the island, when I had become reconciled to the possibility that I might continue to live there for the term of my natural life, that I created my masterpiece.
It was plain that even he had become a believer in the dynamite myth.
His face, moreover, had become livid; his eyes twitched nervously; he seemed to have a difficulty in breathing, and big drops of perspiration trickled down his forehead.
He had become as red as a turkey-cock, and such was his indignation that he forgot his accustomed reserve and the caution with which he had so far concealed his antecedents.
At the end of ten years he had become a man of means.
Meanwhile I had become a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad has seldom opportunities of aspiring; for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.
It was written that I should not yet cease to be Lav-engro, though I had become, in my own opinion, a kind of Lavater.
By that one trial I had become free, as I may say, of the whole equine species.
I had become convalescent, it is true, but my state of feebleness was truly pitiable.
His faculties, like those of old fugitives and hunted creatures, had become trained to a marvelous keenness.
He was as unalterable in that decision as if on the instant of its acceptance he had become stone.
The thing he had intelligence enough to hate he had become.
Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much.
It was but the other day that my sister told me I had become so used to the prison that I had its tone and character.
Fremont had built a fort at Rolla, and it had become a military station.
The locality of Benton Barracks must, from its nature, have been the more healthy, but it had become by art the foulest place I ever visited.
It had become a "Physio-medical Institute" when I was there, and was under the dominion of a quack doctor on one side, and of a college of rights of women female medical professors on the other.
I had become so depressed in spirits that I did not dare to object to this arrangement.
Thus it came to pass that the province of Sulaco, once the field of cruel party vengeances, had become in a way one of the considerable prizes of political career.
He had to keep a tight hand on his feelings, dealing with thieves and rascals, in constant danger of ruin for himself and wife for so many years, that it had become a second nature.
Under the Roman emperors it had become, however, naturalized at Rome (a meet subject for Juvenal's fiery wit).
The children were on either side of the convert; his heart was theirs--he had become as one of them--to enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
The fifth day, about twelve, I had become tired, and stopped at a creek to get some water and rest a little.
Of course I suffered some surprises, along at first, before I had become adjusted to the changed state of things.
To the younger members of the family it seemed already that their father had always been sick, and that he always would be; indeed, to Cora and Hedrick he had become only a weak and querulous voice beyond a closed door.
He had become a priest and for a time he had lived in a monastery.
Then he had become a monk and a bishop and finally, and much against his will, (for he wanted to be a missionary and preach Christianity to the heathen of England,) he had been dragged to the Church of Saint Peter to be made Pope.
He had become a bigger boy since the episode of the cistern, and had probably in some degree outgrown the intense piety of his earlier childhood.
But he here proves by his own words what I have already asserted, that the power of detail correction either was, or had become by experience, very strong in him.
Plain as it had becometo scholars, they hesitated to declare it to the world at large.
But all in vain; the current streaming most directly from sundry texts in the Christian sacred books, and swollen by theology, had become overwhelming.
This growth was affectionately garnered by the more zealous and less critical brethren in Europe until it had become enormous; but it appears to have been thought of little value by those best able to judge.
He had become illustrious, even sanguine clarus, judging from the tone of the worthy Mayor of St. Launce's.
Indeed, May 2d had become a fixed idea in their heads; it had become a dogma with them--something like the day on which Christ was to reappear and the Millennium to begin had formed in the heads of the Chiliasts.
The shadow of the "coup" had become so familiar a spectre to the Parisians, that they refused to believe it when it finally did appear in flesh and blood.
Though Paul, like the older apostles, held that Jesus, as the Messiah, was to return to the earth within a few years, yet to his catholic mind this anticipated event had become divested of its narrow Jewish significance.
Though in earlier times this district had been a favourite highway for armies, by the year 1780 ithad become an almost impassable jungle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had become" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
