noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
become
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He's become the pastor of our class, versed in all the range of human folly and fallibility.
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By the time Mayhew was ready to become a pastor , the ministry was beginning to lose its place of honor.
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He became pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church.
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This had not prevented him from becoming an immensely popular pastor .
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Oengo chose to become a pastor , and left his university post without compensation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 1992, nearly ten percent of the roughly 19, 300 parishes in the United States were without resident pastors.
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In the former, the pastor or bishop or pope dictated terms, and the faithful responded or were punished.
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It is a tradition at the University that the chaplains, as pastors and friends, enter fully into student life.
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Next the pastor came to the microphone and made announcements in an off-handed, jocular, manner.
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Of the pastor , his wife and the baby there had been nothing left but a memory.
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The pastor held the pages close to his face and read.
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There was no final confrontation with pastor or parishioners, simply a quiet parting.