Example sentences of "won the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who won the bloody war , roof up were n't it ! |
| 2 | Mr Branson won the eight-year franchise last April with a bid of £1.9m . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They won the Grand Slam and got to the final of the World Cup . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | won the grand slam . |
| 7 | It won the environmental prize in the Young Engineers for Britain contest , as well as the Crest Gold award from the British Association for the Advancement of Science . |
| 8 | Then he started to pick off his rivals , but time was slipping by and up in front outsider nd to Mill Reef in the Eclipse , Miss Dan , two lengths behind Nijinsky when third in the Arc in 1970 , Bourbon , who had won the Prix Royal-Oak ( the French St Leger ) and Irish Ball , who , though third to Mill Reef in the Derby and unplaced in the King George , had between those two races won the Irish Derby at The Curragh . |
| 9 | Me an ’ Gerry 'd build up the kitchen fire and we 'd sit there and talk about what we 'd do if we won the Irish Sweepstake . |
| 10 | Grunge produced other awards : Nirvana 's ‘ In Bloom ’ won the alternative video trophy , and Stone Temple Pilots ' ‘ Plush ’ won as top new artist honour . |
| 11 | Black athletes had already represented the United States : George Poage at the Olympic Games in 1904 ; de Hart Hubbard won the long jump in 1924 ; Eddie Tolan won the 100 yards and Ralph Metcalfe competed in 1932 . |
| 12 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 13 | Wolves have now failed to progress beyond the second round since they won the then League Cup in 1980 . |
| 14 | The Clinton campaign surged again and he easily won the Democratic nomination . |
| 15 | Ann Richards , 56 , the Texas state Treasurer , won the Democratic nomination for governor on April 10 after one of the most bitter primary contests ever staged . |
| 16 | In both New York and Kansas , where Clinton also won the Democratic primary comfortably last Tuesday , more than a quarter of voters said they would vote Perot for President if he ran . |
| 17 | But it was the Whigs who won the general election ; and they returned to office committed to parliamentary reform , the measure which for all the variety of the causes of social unrest and of the disorders they prompted , came increasingly to be the focus of the general demand for change . |
| 18 | After Labour won the general election of 1964 and 1966 , the Conservatives were on the defensive , until the consequences following on the deflation of July 1966 began to make the Labour Government unpopular . |
| 19 | The two main political parties had converged and when the Conservatives won the general election of October 1951 , the main lines of economic policy were maintained . |
| 20 | The DLP won the general election on Jan. 22 , 1991 [ see below ; pp. 37955-56 ] . |
| 21 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ As soon as circumstances allow , Smith will resume his attempt to water down the manifesto on which Labour won the general election in Scotland . |
| 22 | Oxford 's Nichola Simpson has been on target in the British Outdoor Archery Championship … she won the indoor title last year now she 's done the double … |
| 23 | Even though England won the real thing … |
| 24 | The PT won the major state capitals of Belo Horizonte ( Minas Gerais ) , Porto Alegre ( Rio Grande do Sul ) and Goiânia ( Goiás ) and the important industrial city of Ribeirao Preto . |
| 25 | The Nicholson a double in the big meeting at Ascot … first winner was For the Grain and then good old Waterloo Boy won the major race of the day … |
| 26 | It could fairly be said that Mrs Thatcher won the economic argument . |
| 27 | WHISPERS of a takeover of a British building society have been circulating in the City since the spring when the Abbey National won the overwhelming backing of its savers and borrowers to convert itself into a bank . |
| 28 | First , we should understand that the political hacks were peeved when he won the overwhelming support of his colleagues to represent them on Labour 's shadow cabinet and they were really gutted when John Smith gave him the Scottish Office to shadow . |
| 29 | He won the only match when the USA eventually lost 1–3 to France . |
| 30 | Last year they won the premier award at the Welsh Festival of Light Opera , and have carried off more than 60 awards from the World Famous Waterford International Festival of Light Opera . |