Example sentences of "[pron] became the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 2 | And , without waiting for a reply to his question about whether she gave Morton tacit approval for the book which became the biggest seller in the history of royal publishing , Philip went on to accuse his daughter-in-law of putting the dignity of the Crown at risk . |
| 3 | Who became the youngest MP when he won the Louth by-election in 1969 ? |
| 4 | The 12th-seeded Sukova , playing in her 44th Grand Slam singles event , is enjoying a revival as she became the lowest seed to reach the final since 16th-seed Pam Shriver 15 years ago . |
| 5 | Last year she became the youngest player ever to represent Wales . |
| 6 | He needed an able team of allies during his rise , but they became the greatest threat to his predominance after the mid-1970s . |
| 7 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 8 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 9 | Two years later , in 1972 , he became the youngest world champion . |
| 10 | The nickname stuck after 1930 when he became the youngest player to appear in a Cup final , and by 1931 , before his twenty-first birthday , he had won Cup , Championship and international honours . |
| 11 | Then a Chantry High School pupil aged 16 years and 56 days , he became the youngest player ever to play in a league match for the club . |
| 12 | GRAEME HICK carved out another milestone in his career when during Worcestershire 's match against Leicestershire at New Road he became the youngest player to register 20,000 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 13 | His career commenced at Jarrow in 1897 before moving to Sunderland and then Sheffield United where in 1902 he became the youngest player ever to win an FA Cup winners ' medal . |
| 14 | The following year he became the youngest player ever to win a FA Cup winners ' medal ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) . |
| 15 | He became the youngest beneficiary in the coupon election of 1918 , fighting on a programme of ‘ socialistic imperialism ’ in his Harrow constituency . |
| 16 | Fifteen hundred men worked at one time in what became the largest copper mine in Europe — a vast open-cast quarry hewn out of the hilltop . |
| 17 | In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex-Hibernian midfield player John Collins . |