Example sentences of "[pron] become the [adj -est] [noun] " 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 He set himself to become the best shot and swordsman in the regiment with a single-minded determination which aroused , not the respect he had anticipated , but derision .
4 Some of the people who became the greatest successes in the Bible were the weediest failures in the eyes of other people at the time .
5 Who became the youngest MP when he won the Louth by-election in 1969 ?
6 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 .
7 Last year she became the youngest player ever to represent Wales .
8 Other Carlton programmes to look out for include Head Over Heels , ( Jan 11 ) , a seven-part Fifties rock and roll drama featuring rebellious leather-jacketed teenager Camilla de la Mer who becomes the latest pupil at the Gracie Ellis Academy of Elegance .
9 15 ( 11 ) CALIFORNIA MAN : Comedy about a prehistoric man who becomes the trendiest guy in a modern high school .
10 He needed an able team of allies during his rise , but they became the greatest threat to his predominance after the mid-1970s .
11 Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area .
12 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 .
13 Two years later , in 1972 , he became the youngest world champion .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The following year he became the youngest player ever to win a FA Cup winners ' medal ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) .
19 He became the youngest beneficiary in the coupon election of 1918 , fighting on a programme of ‘ socialistic imperialism ’ in his Harrow constituency .
20 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 .
21 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 .
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