Example sentences of "[subord] win [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether while winning the first US Open title in 1968 as an amateur or out-thinking Jimmy Connors in that classic Wimbledon final of 1975 , Ashe proved himself one of the game 's most gifted competitors . |
| 2 | Strategic air power had all but won the Second World War . |
| 3 | Oxford 's past reveals that , in 1894 , C B Fry , a future England cricketer and then the world long jump record-holder , was prevented by injury from gaining a rugby Blue in the same season as winning the third of his four soccer Blues . |
| 4 | So , when the 1971 British Lions stretched Fergie McCormick this way and that when winning the First Test on Mains ' home ground , the All Black selectors decided that McCormick had to go , and Mains went on to play the remaining three Tests of the first rubber that the Lions had won in New Zealand . |
| 5 | MICHAEL ROBERTS recorded his second consecutive century in this country when winning the last race on Power Shift at Folkestone yesterday and can take this season 's total beyond 100 at York this afternoon , writes Hyperion . |