It's become very tense and everything is possible".
Meg suddenly became very tense, and raced out of the room.
I thought Lester would be right there, and when he wasn't I became very tense.
It could have been easy for DiMarco from that point, but suddenly, things became very tense.
S. Raghunathan: Rangarajan was initially not very worried about this process, but in its later stages, he started to become very tense.
His wife, Karina, said that when the banking crisis hit, he had become "very tense and worried about a lot of things he had worked hard for".
Imagine a back-to-school night where the first-grade teacher lets parents know that "this is a year when children can become very tense about mistakes.
"Fortunately we have a midweek game against Gloucester to help get us back on track because things down the bottom are going to become very tense.
Relations with one of the main potential investors in LNG, Petronas of Malaysia, have become very tense as each side accuses the other of unrealistic expectations.
