Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] became the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 2 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 3 | Richard Ogden was working on the Motors with a lawyer in New York , Charles Levison , who later became the managing director of Arista records in the UK and managing director of Warner Brothers . |
| 4 | The new reached Sweden and John Tanberg , who later became the scientific director and manager of Electrolux , the world-famous manufacturer of household appliances . |
| 5 | It was not ‘ otium cum indignitate , ’ for who should have an even smaller room over mine , known as the horse boxes , but Mr William Gilliat , who later became the royal gynaecologist , and brought the Prince of Wales into this world . |
| 6 | Henry , who later became the amiable vicar of Cannington , was never a likely recruit to idealistic schemes for emigration . |
| 7 | As the M.D. indicates , he was a physician , and the committee specified that Griffith J. Griffiths , who had been appointed to Goldington district , and who later became the senior surgeon at Bedford General Hospital , should be co-opted in cases where major surgery was required . |
| 8 | Jennings , who recently became the Irish Duathlon champion , fought back after exiting the pool one-and-a-half minutes behind Belfast 's Grace Kerr . |
| 9 | Horton believes that Bull , who recently became the first Wolves player to score 200 goals , would be the ideal England partner for Alan Shearer . |
| 10 | He was divorced in 1947 by Margaret Whigham , who subsequently became the third wife of the 11th Duke of Argyll . |