Example sentences of "he become the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
| 3 | He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent . |
| 4 | A year later he became the general secretary , a position he was to hold until 1871 . |
| 5 | In 1878 he became the joint winner in Birmingham of a handicap walking race over a mile with a 45-yard handicap . |
| 6 | He became the personal embodiment of a new solidarity , a new ralliement , nudging his fellow-countrymen towards a new accommodation to changing circumstances at home and overseas . |
| 7 | In 1922 he became the Labour candidate for the University of London constituency , but he died before the election . |
| 8 | Later he became the New Yorker 's music critic and went on to be music editor of the Listener . |
| 9 | He became the managing partner of a large mercantile firm in India , returning to Lewis for the fishing and shooting season . |
| 10 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Running for Darlington , he became the first man to run 100 yards in even time ( 10 seconds dead ) under championship conditions when he took the Amateur Athletics Association ( AAA ) title in 1886 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 13 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 14 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 15 | His career did not end there , for in 1903 , when the light heavyweight division was created , he became the first man to win three world titles when he became the world light heavyweight champion after beating George Gardner in twenty rounds at San Francisco . |
| 16 | He became the first man in history to walk into a restaurant and trip over a ceiling . |
| 17 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 18 | For his day 's exploits , he became the first American in the war to be awarded the Légion d'Honneur . |
| 19 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 20 | He became the first pilot to aerial bomb Istanbul , and held the record for long distance bombing raids , many of which were in a Handley Page 0/400 . |
| 21 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 22 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 23 | A champion of Catholic educational interests , he served on the senate of the Royal University of Ireland ( 1883–4 ) , the National Education Board ( 1895–1901 ) , and the senate of the National University of Ireland of which , in 1908 , he became the first chancellor . |
| 24 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |
| 25 | Ordained deacon in 1875 , he became the first chaplain of Clifton College Mission . |
| 26 | After two months of protracted negotiation , Alf arrived at Ayresome Park , and chalked up a record which can never be eclipsed : he became the first £1,000 footballer . |
| 27 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 28 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 29 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 30 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |