Example sentences of "[pers pn] had won a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had won a race ; I had gratified my aunt and uncle . |
| 2 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 3 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 4 | For the first time in her premiership she had won a knock-out victory . |
| 5 | Clare felt as if she had won a sweepstake . |
| 6 | Firewomen Emerton , Simpson , Smart and Turner — telephonists from Farnham Fire Station — returned from a ten week course near Reading where they had won a cup after competitions with several other fire service teams . |
| 7 | The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld . |
| 8 | However , Timex said it had won a court order restricting to six the number of pickets organised by local AEEU officials , and requiring that picketing be peaceful . |
| 9 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 10 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 11 | Though he had won a scholarship , he would never be interested in the niceties of Greek and Latin languages . |
| 12 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 13 | His school was the County High School at Dagenham and from there he had won a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 14 | He moved to Headley with his family last year from London , where he had won a reputation as a campaigner in his community , and set up practice as Jack Warshaw Conservation Architecture and Planning after many years as head of conservation at Wandsworth Council . |
| 15 | Johnny was an old-fashioned inside-forward ( the position in which he had won a League championship medal with Chelsea in 1955 ) , but he gradually moved , via wing-half , to full-back and it was from there that he skippered Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , taking us out of Division 4 in 1960–61 . |
| 16 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 17 | He had won a US Open and a Masters title in great style , and their affair was a natural for the pages of the world 's newspapers . |
| 18 | He had won a victory . |
| 19 | He had won a victory , the doctor had come and put Wattling together again , and perhaps — though he did n't expect it — everything might return to normal . |
| 20 | But the fact that he had won a signal victory over the headmaster on Monday night made him reluctant to pit himself against him again so soon . |
| 21 | In early September he had won a promise from India that anti-Bhutan activity would not be allowed by ethnic Nepalese who had fled Bhutan to West Bengal and Assam . |
| 22 | Jess was the liveliest player on the park and after he had won a free kick on the edge of the penalty box , the Aberdeen forward came close with a header from Nevin 's cross . |