Example sentences of "win the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather as you expected East wins the first trick with the ten of diamonds , and at trick two leads the four of spades . |
| 2 | Whilst thinking furiously about the play of the rest of the hand , you try the queen of hearts from dummy , which wins the first trick . |
| 3 | Despite his inexperience Andy wins the first race . |
| 4 | Jesus wins the first round in the battle against evil ( Mark 1 : 21–28 ) . |
| 5 | It 's you that normally wins the first hand and me for the rest . |
| 6 | On the other hand , if Clubs are played before Spades , East wins the third round and can play a high trump , removing the last trump from dummy . |
| 7 | When a Labour-Lib Dem partnership wins the next election , for the sake of the people and the country damn well work together . |
| 8 | However , whichever party wins the next election will do well to learn from recent years . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Strategic air power had all but won the Second World War . |
| 13 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Having won the first trick with Ace of Hearts , the best approach seems to be to play on Spades . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You 've each won the first prize in our June competition of a Rohan Shearwater Gore-Tex jacket and pair of the company 's famous walking trousers , Rohan bags . |
| 18 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 19 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 20 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 21 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 22 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
| 23 | The Rona sheep had won the first round . |
| 24 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
| 25 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |