Example sentences of "won [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vivien Saunders , one of Golf Monthly 's teaching professionals , has won the golf category of the Coach of the Year Awards . |
| 2 | The long-time social crusader said he had been ousted by the trade union block vote and had won the majority support of the individual members of the Birkenhead constituency who took part in the secret ballot on Tuesday . |
| 3 | He had won the court case , had obtained over £2,000 in costs , was due £4,750 as his half share of the sale price of the Baron , and William Dunlop had still to pay him half of the stallion 's considerable stud earnings for the preceding six years . |
| 4 | Six other horses were in the line-up , of which the most fancied were Combs Ditch , who had beaten Bregawn in their warm-up race at Wincanton , Fifty Dollars More , winner of the Mackeson Gold Cup on the course the previous November , and Brown Chamberlin , a promising eight-year-old from Fred Winter 's stable who had won the Sun Alliance Chase in 1982 . |
| 5 | We pride ourselves on having won the propaganda war . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's great ’ said a delighted Derek Porter , from HFD , Culcheth , on being told that he had won the Gazette competition for January , a £50 perfume voucher courtesy of Hampson 's Perfumerie , Leigh . |
| 7 | Alan Hill has won the Cricket Society 's Jubilee Literary Award which carries a prize of £500 for his biography of Herbert Sutcliffe . |
| 8 | Was he too old , I wondered , to console himself after I had gone , with the knowledge that without our penetration of Enigma , he might still have won the U-boat war ? |
| 9 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 10 | when you 're playing about Probably won the teddy bear . |
| 11 | New Scientist noted the dangers from Colorado beetle and said that British Rail scientists had won the railbus war over another story that said ‘ Go-ahead for space platform ’ , causing unfounded optimism in commuters . |
| 12 | Beatrice might have been happiest as a political hostess , however , had she won the marriage partner for whom her heart thumped . |
| 13 | By mid-1984 Dawn Run had won the Champion Hurdle in three countries . |
| 14 | I thought that I had finished third , but when I studied the television slow-motion replay on the stadium scoreboard I could see that in fact Ray had won the bronze medal . |
| 15 | BAIE member Harvey Smith ( right ) , who edits the Institute of Public Relations Journal , has won the South East PR Means Business competition . |
| 16 | His jockey , Peter Scudamore , has ridden more winners than any rider in history , but has never won the Gold Cup . |
| 17 | Racing 's been good to Richard Dunwoody … he 's won the National … he 's won the Gold Cup … he 's ridden the great Desert Orchid … there 's only dream left to chase … to be champion |
| 18 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
| 19 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
| 20 | Another past pupil , Dr. W.B. Whalley , had won the Back Award of the Royal Geographical Society for his recent contributions to high-altitude research and the application of electron microscopy . |
| 21 | Elizabeth had won the essay competition and was just about to stand up when Jessica got up and she walked up to Mr and she asked and he asked her what magazine she wanted for the year and she said Rock Seventeen Jessica knew what magazine Elizabeth wanted and she just said Rock Seventeen . |
| 22 | Apart from Dancing Brave , the three-year-old generation was represented by the Derby winner Shahrastani , by the filly Darara , who had recently won the Trusthouse Forte Prix Vermeille , one of France 's top races for three-year-old fillies , and by Bering , unbeaten in four races that season including the Prix du Jockey-Club Lancia ( the French equivalent of the Derby ) . |
| 23 | , office manager for Livestock Contracts , is a keen bowler ( flat green version ) and is the pride of 's Eagle Mill at Ipswich , having won the County Cup for the four-wood singles competition earlier this year . |
| 24 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 25 | Mersey had won the Prix Royal-Oak ( the French St Leger ) in 1985 ; Iades had won the Prix Dollar at Chantilly ; Baby Turk had won the Grand Prix de Deauville . |
| 26 | The French horse Argument had won the Prix Ganay at Longchamp earlier in the season . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't want to wind up on crutches when you 've just won the world title . ’ |
| 28 | Hill , who impressed the team with his speed in a recent test session at Estoril , has agreed a one-year contract with a two-year option to partner Prost , who has won the world championship three times . |
| 29 | The Olympic 100 metres champion will retire after the Commonwealth Games in 1994 , by which time he hopes to have won the World Championship gold medal . |
| 30 | Against them , Jerry Moffatt , the man who should have won the world championship but fell off his bike . |