Example sentences of "he become [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.

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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 He became the best available villain for those who wished to fasten upon an individual to blame for Britain 's plight .
3 After education at Oxford , he became the greatest of all the priors at Bridlington .
4 The nickname stuck after 1930 when he became the youngest player to appear in a Cup final , and by 1931 , before his twenty-first birthday , he had won Cup , Championship and international honours .
5 He became the youngest beneficiary in the coupon election of 1918 , fighting on a programme of ‘ socialistic imperialism ’ in his Harrow constituency .
6 Then a Chantry High School pupil aged 16 years and 56 days , he became the youngest player ever to play in a league match for the club .
7 Two years later , in 1972 , he became the youngest world champion .
8 GRAEME HICK carved out another milestone in his career when during Worcestershire 's match against Leicestershire at New Road he became the youngest player to register 20,000 runs in first-class cricket .
9 His career commenced at Jarrow in 1897 before moving to Sunderland and then Sheffield United where in 1902 he became the youngest player ever to win an FA Cup winners ' medal .
10 The following year he became the youngest player ever to win a FA Cup winners ' medal ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) .
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