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‘A male may become king.’

[⟨det male.nbecome.v (k king.n)]

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Bricks found at the tower during the renovation led Westh and other experts to revise their theory on when the structure was originally constructed, moving back the date from around 1255 to the beginning of the century, when Valdemar became king.
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Little is said of his reign in the Anglo – Saxon Chronicle other than the bare facts that he became king, and was then deposed and exiled in 774.
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In 1134, Eric becomes king, and she Queen of Denmark.
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Vallabhraj (1009 for six months) attacked King Sindhuraj’s territory as soon as he became king.
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Minos explains that Asterion, whom he hates, wants to marry Ariadne once he becomes king.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I have reached the point in Penman at which Richard has become king and is besieged on all sides by traitors and sycophants.
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In the British National Corpus:

Edward becomes king again, d’ you understand?”
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In this church in 1137 the 15 year old Eleanor of Aquitaine married the future Louis VII a few months before he became king.
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Although the lists of his mighty men (2 Samuel 23:8 – 39 & 1 Chronicles 11:10 – 47) are given after David has become king, many of them may have been the loyal followers who stayed with him when he was fleeing King Saul.
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It is later revealed that Charming is in fact the son of the Fairy Godmother, and that the two of them want him to marry Fiona so that he can become king (similar to Lord Farquaad’s intentions from the first movie).
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Sebastio, known in Portugal as “the Desired”, was the son of the Infante Dom John (son of John III of Portugal) and Joanna, daughter of the Emperor Charles V. His father died before he was born, and he became king at the age of three after the death of his grandfather in 1557.
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Frederick became king in 1848.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Saul, only he was called a king, but he was not a real king. he was similar to a judge, his’ ‘kingdom’’ didn’t have organization, just like 1 Samuel 13:1 – 2 Saul was thirty years old when he became king and he reigned over Israel forty two years.
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In Simple Wikipedia:

When Charles became king, he decided that he did not like sharing the work of government with the people who were elected to Parliament.
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In 1134, Eric becomes king, and she Queen of Denmark.
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He became king after his father abdicated, and was the first ruler of Babylonia.
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The name means “old” and could signify that he was old when he became king or that he was the older brother to his predecessor Anund Jakob.
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The latter rumour also seems to the basis of the account of Orderic Vitalis; according to him, Hugh and other nobles were offended by Fulk, who brought Angevin nobles and counsellors with him when he became king, and ignored the native barons of the kingdom.
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In 1045, she followed Harald to Norway, were he became king and she became queen of Norway.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.