Example sentences of "win him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activity in these roles absorbs most of his time and energy : it will win him the popularity essential to his reelection . |
| 2 | They had no idea that his old world manners and charm would win him the love of the most eligible divorcee in the land , the Princess Royal , Princess Anne . |
| 3 | And it 's that devotion that 's just won him the title of Britains most romantic top tycoon . |
| 4 | A BOY 'S ambition to run a cafe with a smile has won him the title of Smarties ' Young Achiever of the Year . |
| 5 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
| 6 | Papers which fought to win him the election have , like so many of his back-benchers and supporters , turned against him . |
| 7 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season . |
| 8 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford to win him the title last season . |
| 9 | Hands off : the splendid form of Dewi Morris ( left ) is likely to win him the nod as the second scrum-half in the British Lions ' squad , pushing Robert Jones out of the picture |
| 10 | In a curious way Ian 's enormous courage and determination in overcoming the double fracture — which many pundits feared would become a permanent disablement — won him the hearts of all Palace followers . |
| 11 | Yet Erhard 's honest , calm , and fair-minded character reflected a lack of political acumen and an inability to wield authority which won him the nickname of ‘ the Rubber Lion ’ . |
| 12 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
| 13 | His map of Derbyshire at a scale of one inch to a mile , begun in 1763 and published in 1767 , won him the £100 premium offered by the Society of Arts . |
| 14 | His goalkeeping won him the man of the match award . |
| 15 | Peron needed the union movement for support and , indeed , it was the labour movement who brought him back from exile and won him the presidency . |
| 16 | Durrant 's determination won him the ball at the byeline just inside the Marseille penalty area . |
| 17 | The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance . |
| 18 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |
| 19 | Our Borders MP was David Steel ( who had beaten Robin McEwen at the by-election which won him the seat ) and as a member of his local Liberal party , I was invited to join the Scottish Liberal Party 's Council . |
| 20 | It was widely recognized to be a very important contribution to quantum theory , and it won him the Nobel Prize in 1922 . |
| 21 | The " Ostpolitik " which won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 involved the negotiation of treaties renouncing German territorial claims to the east , in Czechoslovakia , Poland and the then Soviet Union , as well as the 1972 Basic Treaty with East Germany . |
| 22 | Paris bound : Paul Williamson , a chef at the Stormont Hotel , Belfast with his mouth-watering pork Craigantlet Creel dish which won him the Hastings Ulster Pork Challenge title at a competition held in the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education . |
| 23 | The 32-year-old Irishman said his struggle to return to the form which won him the world title and Tours of France and Italy in 1987 his 1987 level , when he won a world title and the Tours of France and Italy , had placed strains on his family . |
| 24 | The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 ( see previous page ) , and the efforts of her Coxswain during the service won him the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum . |
| 25 | He became recognised as one of the most accomplished half-backs in the Division and his displays won him the approval of the fans on many grounds besides our own . |
| 26 | His gallantry in the ensuing conflict won him the MC , but he was killed while crossing the Sambre and Oise canal near Ors in the early morning of 4 November — one week before the armistice , and two years before the first volume of his work was published . |
| 27 | His vehement denial that God 's favor could be earned through the sacraments , or bought by donations to an often grasping priesthood , had set up vibrations through Christendom , eventually winning him the protection of lay powers having a vested interest in a deflation of the papacy . |
| 28 | Boutros Ghali 's fluency in French , acquired as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris , was decisive in winning him the support of France which had reportedly threatened to veto a non-French-speaking candidate . |
| 29 | To their amazement , his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle , winning him the silver arrow . |