Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] become the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 2 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 3 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |
| 4 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 5 | David Strang , whose South African-based Glaswegian parents were in Toronto to see him become the first Briton to win a world indoors 1,500m medal , also has a connection with the Boyle squad . |
| 6 | Both Johnson Matthey and the Ceramic Society supported Mike through this transition , allowing him to become the first president of the Canadian Ceramic Society to reside outside of Canada . |
| 7 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 8 | In October , 1991 , The Rt Hon Angela Rumbold , CBE , MP , who at that time chaired the Government 's ministerial group on women 's issues , presented Georgina Wicks ( 14 ) of La Saint Union Convent School , London , with a certificate to commemorate her becoming the 100,000th girl to gain experience of technology on a WISE vehicle since the beginning of the WISE campaign . |
| 9 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 10 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |