Example sentences of "he became the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The son of a miner , Ronald Eyre was born at Mapplewell , Yorks , on April 13 1929 and educated at Queen Elizabeth 's Grammar School , Wakefield , and University College , Oxford , where he became the secretary of OUDS . |
| 2 | He became the secretary of a standing committee of veterinary surgeons dedicated to petitioning the Privy Council for a Royal Charter ‘ conferring upon the graduates of the Royal Veterinary College and the College of Edinburgh the title of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , upon the same plan and constitution as the present Royal College of Surgeons ’ . |
| 3 | He became the doyen of British physicists , and incidentally one of the first whose voice we can still hear , preserved in a primitive recorder at Glasgow University . |
| 4 | He became the chairman of the residents ' committee , and at the official opening , had some very honest , articulate and moving words to say . |
| 5 | In the same year he became the chairman of the radical Green Ribbon Club , but he briefly and secretly came over to the court interest . |
| 6 | Almost immediately he became the anchorman of the Hampshire batting and he was to score over 1,000 runs in a season twenty-seven times , including twice when he passed the 3,000 mark , and nine times when he exceeded 2,000 . |
| 7 | When relations grew particularly bad he became the child go-between in a household of warring parents : ‘ Ask your father if it would break his heart to change channels so I can watch the news . ’ |
| 8 | Later he became the vicar of a Cambridge parish . |
| 9 | He became the vicar of St Benet 's Cambridge on 6 January 1939 . |
| 10 | But Mr O'Brien had to resign abruptly last summer when he became the subject of a grand-jury investigation into possible illegal loans from a military sub-contractor . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is not surprising that he became the subject of legend , his noble image inspiring the collective imagination to attach magical tales to his historical person . |
| 12 | Bloch , who had spent 30 years in the foreign service , gained international notoriety in 1989 when he became the subject of an intensive FBI investigation into allegations that he has passed classified information to the Soviet Union whilst serving as deputy chief of the US embassy in Vienna in 1983-87 . |
| 13 | They claim that he became the Messiah only at the time of his baptism — that is , his anointment or coronation . |
| 14 | He became the editor and one of the proprietors , retaining full control of the journal until 1931 . |
| 15 | In a word : he became the hero of twentieth-century art ’ is the author 's assessment , which concludes that he is the new Michelangelo . |
| 16 | As the legendary Kraljević Marko , he became the hero of a cycle of popular ballads , embodying all the heroic and tragic characteristics of the Serbian people . |
| 17 | Eventually he became the school 's headmaster but by that time his rather late marriage had somewhat tamed this fiery individual . |
| 18 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 19 | Three years later he became the Head of the Victoria Centre . |
| 20 | Golden Minstrel , Forest Ranger , Willsford and Ghofar disputed the early lead and Brown Windsor was with them when , jumping left and colliding with Forest Ranger at Becher 's , he became the race 's most expensive casualty . |
| 21 | When this job terminated at the start of NEP , he became the State Bank 's Kursk agent for purchasing grain . |
| 22 | Mortimer was a Marcher lord and a Contrariant who had been imprisoned in the Tower and threatened with death ; he escaped to Paris in 1323 where he became the centre of a group of exiles and fugitives . |
| 23 | Although his farms attracted many distinguished visitors , including Sir Robert Peel , he became the centre of great controversy . |
| 24 | This brought him to Rivers ' attention , and he became the earl 's deputy as receiver of the duchy of Cornwall . |
| 25 | This brought him to Rivers ' attention , and he became the earl 's deputy as receiver of the duchy of Cornwall . |
| 26 | In 1858 he became the queen 's personal servant in Scotland . |
| 27 | Manchester United had offered him increased terms to stay on the club 's playing staff ; several years later Chelsea offered him even more money to leave Swindon and he became the elite London club 's assistant-manager , but on both occasions Macari put the unspectacular west country side first . |
| 28 | In 1989 he became the University of Bristol 's sixth Chancellor . |
| 29 | After helping to lead an unsuccessful strike by the Vellum Binders ' Society in 1891–2 for the eight-hour day , he became the union 's president . |
| 30 | Together with Kim Dae Jung he became the country 's most prominent dissident but , unlike the elder Kim , he was never closely associated with the country 's radical left-wing groups . |