Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] became the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We barely knew any numbers at all at that time , but we got away with noise and after that we fast became the second loudest group in London playing gigs at Brighton , Hastings , Birmingham , Newcastle Tadcaster . |
| 2 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 3 | Pupils from our friendly neighbourhood school , St John 's , were invited along as passengers and they too became the first to use the bypass . |
| 4 | In the second Test at Port-of-Spain , he duly became the third ‘ W ’ , Weekes and Walcott having already made their debuts , and scored 97 and 28 not out . |
| 5 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 6 | It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 . |
| 7 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 8 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 9 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |