Example sentences of "he become the [adj] " 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 | 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 | And the one lost creature , he became the saved one because it was made aware that is was lost . |
| 5 | A year later he became the general secretary , a position he was to hold until 1871 . |
| 6 | In 1878 he became the joint winner in Birmingham of a handicap walking race over a mile with a 45-yard handicap . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1922 he became the Labour candidate for the University of London constituency , but he died before the election . |
| 9 | Later he became the New Yorker 's music critic and went on to be music editor of the Listener . |
| 10 | He became the managing partner of a large mercantile firm in India , returning to Lewis for the fishing and shooting season . |
| 11 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 12 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 15 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 18 | He became the first Portuguese emigrant to be allowed a licence to open a liquor store there . |
| 19 | He became the first Marquess of Exeter in 1801 and he died in 1804 , aged 50 . |
| 20 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |
| 21 | He became the first Australian leg-spinner since Bill O'Reilly against South Africa in 1936-37 to claim five wickets in an innings at the MCG . |
| 22 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 23 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 24 | He became the first from his club to be capped , in the Second Test of the recent tour of Australia in Hastings ' injury absence , and he played for Scotland ‘ A ’ against Spain in Madrid on September 12 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The hunter from the Mendip Hills in Somerset smashed the track record as he became the first to complete the Cheltenham-Liverpool Foxhunters ' double since Grittar in 1981 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |
| 29 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 30 | That year was also memorable for Moss because , with co-driver Denis Jenkinson , he became the first , and only , Briton to win the Mille Miglia classic . |