Example sentences of "won the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The East German Olympic champion Silke Hoerner , who won the 200 metres breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul Games , has retired . |
| 2 | I won the 200 metres and the crowd , as always highly supportive of the British athletes , shook the rafters . |
| 3 | I won the 200 metres in fine style , clocking my best indoor time of 21.05 seconds . |
| 4 | Woronin won the 60 metres in a new European record of 6.51 seconds and Bruno Marie-Rose won the 200 metres in 20.36 seconds , a new world record . |
| 5 | I won the 200 metres easily . |
| 6 | WORLD junior championship relay gold medallist , James Baulch , equalled his recent Welsh indoor record when he won the 200 metres in a stylish 21.65 in the indoor international against Scotland at the Kelvin Hall , Glasgow , last night . |
| 7 | The all amateur team of Bob Allan , Damion De Luca and Bill Turner won the fifth East of Scotland Golfers Alliance team tournament for the Tappit Hen Trophy at Craigmillar Park yesterday . |
| 8 | who won the bloody war , roof up were n't it ! |
| 9 | Mr Branson won the eight-year franchise last April with a bid of £1.9m . |
| 10 | Winning in Europe already … are gold medallist rowers Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent … from Henley … they won the coxless pairs at the French |
| 11 | Those players - Beaumont , Smith , Cotton , Uttley and the rest — became part of northern folklore and , more importantly , went on to form the hard core of the England team who won the Grand Slam in 1980 . |
| 12 | They won the Grand Slam and got to the final of the World Cup . |
| 13 | But rapture it was that Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1990 when Ian McGeechan 's tartan lads won the Grand Slam , the Triple Crown , the Calcutta Cup and the hearts of all of us numb with tear-stained joy in the stands and terracings of Murrayfield . |
| 14 | won the grand slam . |
| 15 | A HUGE Tory row today broke out after the government won the crucial Maastricht debate by just three votes . |
| 16 | With the match level at 5–5 , Andrew Dennison who was unbeaten throughout the championship and Jonathan Cowan won the crucial doubles to give Ulster their ninth victory in a row . |
| 17 | as if beating England and supplying half of the World Cup winning side was enough for one year Queensland also won the 22nd Dubai . |
| 18 | Beating the Ingham family monopoly was Michael Calvert ( Yorks ) who won the 16's title 7–6 4–6 7–5 against a tiring Richard Stamp ( Lincs ) . |
| 19 | Liverpool 's Debbie Sinnott won the under-15 girls 100 metres in 12.9 seconds . |
| 20 | Rebecca Murphy won the under-15 girls with 5.28 metres and Jan Irving the under-17 boys with 6.80 metres . |
| 21 | GERHARD BERGER won the best race of the year . |
| 22 | Loose Tubes won the Best Band category , and the Jazz Warriors alumni , Cleveland Watkiss and the vibra harpist , Orphy Robinson , won the Best Vocalist and Best Newcomer awards . |
| 23 | Beat That ; Hairdressing , won the best children 's and young people 's category . |
| 24 | Diana Hendry , who studied as a mature student in the Department of English , won the Best Children 's Novel category prize in the 1991 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her tale of Harvey Angell , a ‘ magical electrician ’ . |
| 25 | Mark Evans of Padeswood and Buckley won the best nett prize with 131 and Mold won the team title with Padeswood and Buckley second and Flint third . |
| 26 | Loose Tubes won the Best Band category , and the Jazz Warriors alumni , Cleveland Watkiss and the vibra harpist , Orphy Robinson , won the Best Vocalist and Best Newcomer awards . |
| 27 | She trained at LAMDA , where she won the Best Actress of the Graduating Year award . |
| 28 | Jane , who won the best actress award for her role in Coming Home , recently married media tycoon Ted Turner . |
| 29 | THE Oscar-nominated actress Emma Thompson last night won the best actress prize in the British Academy of Film and Television Awards for her role in Howards End , which was also named best film . |
| 30 | It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was . |