Example sentences of "[conj] he became the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 2 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 3 | Alfonso , on the other hand , though go-ahead and energetic , was of a docile nature and readily deferred to his parents and his eldest sister Urraca , so that he became the favourite son and developed all the traits of a spoilt child . |
| 4 | Several clubs from the Football League sought to tempt Harry away from the Palace , but without success , and he became the first Palace player to be awarded a Benefit by our club — it was the Southern League encounter with Coventry City at the Palace on 12 October 1912. 9,000 fans turned up and the Palace won 3–0 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Toronto on that homeward trip I first met Ernest L. Bushnell who had come into radio as one-quarter of a male quartet and who rose in the ranks of Canadian radio until he became the top executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation some years later . |
| 7 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 8 | The drawing just pre-dated the wilder stories of Modigliani 's debauchery , before he became the established drunk of Montparnasse in the eyes of the world . |
| 9 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 10 | My principal reason was a very subjective one : I had , as an undergraduate , met with and remained a firm friend of one of the leading Ibos , Sir Louis Mbanefo , who had been knighted by the British government when he became the Chief Justice of Eastern Nigeria . |
| 11 | But a kid who got out not through sport but through The Word , and who would n't forget this blessing , even when he became the Big Man . |
| 12 | PURSUIT OF LOVE shot to 5–1 favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas , on May 2 , with an emphatic two-length victory in yesterday 's European Free Handicap as he became the 200th winner trained by Henry Cecil for Lord Howard de Walden . |
| 13 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |