Example sentences of "he won the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1860 he won the headmaster 's poetry prize with ‘ The Escorial ’ ; another schoolboy poem appeared in February 1863 in Once a Week , one of the few to be published during his lifetime . |
| 2 | In 1966 he won the opening round of the championship at Monte Carlo but , after a bad crash at Spa in the next race , he failed to win again that season , or the season after . |
| 3 | Still with Renault in 1982 he won the opening two rounds in Argentina and Brazil , after the disqualification of Piquet and Rosberg , but , sadly , they turned out to be his only successes . |
| 4 | Sullivan took the opener 7-4 but then Duff looked to have taken command when he won the second 7-3 and the next 7-0 . |
| 5 | Returning to his parents in Scarborough , he continued to train in hotel management until in 1925 he at last defied the family and enrolled as a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where two years later he won the gold medal and was immediately given his start in the professional theatre by one of his teachers , the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | He won the gold medal there thanks to and a rather curious operation of the rules . |
| 7 | He won the Gold Cup with Charter Party back in 88 … that was a dream … |
| 8 | David Nicholson says he had tears in his eyes and was almost speechless when he won the gold cup |
| 9 | For Desert Orchid , it was a return to the course where he won the Gold Cup . |
| 10 | He was selected to represent BSAD Northern Region at the Junior National Championships in Blackpol in July , 1991 , where he won the gold medal in the shot putt and the 100m sprint . |
| 11 | Last night he won the backing of Peter Mandelson , Labour MP for Hartlepool and the party 's former communications director , who said he did not think Mr Birt should consider resigning . |
| 12 | He won the majority of votes in the Afro-Mauritanian south as well as in the capital , and in the Trarza region where the influence of the maraboutic orders ( of Moslem holy men ) remained strong . |
| 13 | Inevitably , he won the Man of the Match award . |
| 14 | In 1811 he won the competition for a complex of buildings in Plymouth consisting of a hotel , assembly rooms , and theatre ; and , his success with this important commission establishing his local reputation , he moved to Plymouth and remained for twenty-five years the leading architect of the neighbourhood . |
| 15 | In 1822 he won the competition for rebuilding London Bridge but the result was set aside in favour of the design by John Rennie [ q.v. ] ; and the principal feature of his career , for which he gained notice on the Continent as well as in England , was to be his speciality as a designer of large covered market buildings . |
| 16 | In 1785 he won the competition for a public building in his native county of Angus , the town and county hall in Forfar ; at about the same time he secured the patronage of Henry Dundas , first Viscount Melville [ q.v. ] , the most powerful man in Scotland , for whom he designed Melville Castle , Midlothian ( 1786–91 ) ; while his small number of English patrons included the collector Sir George Beaumont [ q.v. ] , to whose London residence he added a picture gallery ( 1790–2 ) . |
| 17 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
| 18 | We 've more winners to celebrate in our action round up this week … one jump ahead of all the rest is Oxford teenager Carl Howard … he 's the new European junior long jump champion … he won the competition in Spain with a personal best of 7.76 metres … |
| 19 | Newmarket is the next stop and he 's not rated much higher than when he won the race before . ’ |
| 20 | Or : ‘ He won the bronze in 1976 , so he 's used to being out in front . ’ |
| 21 | As it happened , Sheffield 's John Sherwood was very interested because he won the bronze for Britain . |
| 22 | He won the bronze medal in the 200 metres , and then had a spectacular and unexpected victory in the 400 metres to take the gold medal in a world record time of 47.6 seconds ( 10 July 1924 ) . |
| 23 | While in middle age he won the bronze medal of the Royal Society for his attempted rescue of a drowning man from the Thames . |
| 24 | Just 10 days before the Champion Royal Gait threw a splint — a minor leg injury similar to that sustained by Rodrigo de Triano before he won the Champion Stakes . |
| 25 | Steve Thompson from Gloucester is the new world karate champion … in the finals in Italy he won his class … he won the champion of champions fight and then went on to help Britain win the team title … |
| 26 | It can be argued that he won the election not because of the Tory campaign but in spite of it . |
| 27 | This weekend there are plenty of voices implying that Mr Major must be a good Prime Minister because he won the election . |
| 28 | ALL THE PRESIDENT 'S TAXMEN On the campaign trail , the next US president promised that high earners could expect to pay more tax — and foreign-owned companies much , much more — if he won the election . |
| 29 | He won the election in 1986 ( and , with it , the title of ‘ the accidental governor ’ ) because the Democrats self-destructed in their primary . |
| 30 | He explained that he was definitely persona non grata with Rhee and that the latter would bring in his ‘ carpetbaggers ’ if he won the election , meaning Rhee 's supporters in the United States , Hawaii and China . |