Example sentences of "[verb] win the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 2 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | A BOY who has won the first national Kids Who Care award is to use his prize money to buy a guide dog for his brother . |
| 4 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 5 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
| 6 | Ms Sandra Milton , aged 31 , has won the first Scheduled Services Award for selling more trips from the airport than any other travel agent during the last 12 month . |
| 7 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 8 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 9 | Reid has won the last two Ulster rounds in the series at Temple and the Mid-Antrim 150 while James Courtney sneaked in to take the round at Dundalk . |
| 10 | WASHINGTON , D.C. Richard P. Wunder , author of Hiram Powers , Vermont Sculptor , 1805-73 , reviewed in The Art Newspaper last month , has won the fourth annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for this book . |
| 11 | Everyone wants to win the First Divisiocn championship . |
| 12 | ‘ I just now want to win the last two races in Japan and Australia and then it 's a new career for me . ’ |
| 13 | I helped to win the last one , I shall help to win the next one . |
| 14 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 15 | We deserved to win the 1st leg too . |
| 16 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 17 | But as Navratilova , although looking somewhat shaky , recovered to win the next two sets 6-3 , 6-4 , to complete the victory over Spain , there was no stealing Evert 's thunder . |
| 18 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 19 | Ms Short said the women 's vote could help Labour to win the next general election provided more women could be persuaded that Labour was sensitive to women 's demands . |
| 20 | I mentioned some of the problems we were facing and David asked , ‘ Harvey , do your people actually want to win the next election ? ’ |
| 21 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 22 | In the first place it financed a boom , helping to win the last election . |
| 23 | For example , " What do you think about Mr Gorbachev ? " or " Who do you think is going to win the next election ? " |
| 24 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems he just keeps winning the last point . |
| 26 | ‘ I think if I had the confidence of 2 or 3 years ago I would have won the 2nd set and probably the match , ’ he said . |
| 27 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
| 28 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
| 29 | The National Health Service was a genuine concern to many people , and for this and similar reasons , he believed , Margaret Thatcher could not possibly have won the next election for the Tories . |
| 30 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |