Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] win the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Edberg wins and goes on to win the final , the London-based Swede will regain the top spot Courier has held for all but six weeks of this year . |
| 2 | Mr Taylor , who has only six cattle , was clearly delighted with his triumph and he said afterwards that his ambition was to go on to win the Aberdeen Fatstock Show at the end of this year . |
| 3 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 4 | As this book goes to print , it seems that consumer pressure has finally won the day and forced a re-evaluation of corporate policy by the major US tuna canners . |
| 5 | Fournet-Fayard told French television : ‘ Good sense has finally won the day … the pressure exerted by the international bodies was really becoming unsupportable . ’ |
| 6 | Sherwood has just won the licence to sell socks at Paris 's EuroDisney park . |
| 7 | Laura , an accountant , has just won the Ulster ladies ' individual life-saving title for the fourth year running , while Karen is in the ambulance service and plays a key role as secretary of Ireland 's No.1 club in the RLSS — Southend . |
| 8 | Pivotal role : Emma Thompson has already won the acclaim of the critics for her part in Howard 's End and is a firm favourite to win a coveted Academy Award |
| 9 | He has already won the title Young Engineer of Britain from the Engineering Council for inventing a device to warn pedestrians that pub cellar trapdoors are open . |
| 10 | She has deservedly won the respect of everyone in the field of movement and dance both for the Society and herself . |
| 11 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 12 | In recognition of her efforts she has now won the college 's Gwen Eaton Jones Award for Endeavour . |
| 13 | But the campaign has n't won the approval of the medical profession , which still believes chips do us no good at all . |
| 14 | As has just been suggested , and I also mentioned in my speech , yes please , read the rule , it does n't say at every stage and that is all we 're asking for , that at every stage in the procedure a member knows why he or she has n't won the appeal . |
| 15 | Lillywhite , 26 , from Walton-on-Thames , has previously won the King of the Mountains title but played a supporting role when Shane Sutton ( 1990 ) and Chris Walker ( 1991 ) won the event . |
| 16 | Though the 27-year-old Scot has yet to win the championship she was third last year , on her comeback following pregnancy she has been in unbeatable form since her 10,000 metres World Championship triumph in Tokyo , winning the New York Marathon , setting a world indoor 5,000 metres record and lapping all of her 3,000 metres rivals in the Great Britain v USA indoor international last weekend . |
| 17 | In that erm just as we 've discussed the allocation of work on the airframe between the four nations on m most pieces of equipment there is a an allocation between the four nations and er in in many cases a consortium with the same members has actually won the competitions on five or six different pieces of equipment . |
| 18 | For the moment , TI has certainly won the favour of many a fickle analyst . |
| 19 | And Rob Coles has certainly won the hearts and minds of the girls and boys at the Naphill and Walters Ash School in Buckinghamshire . |
| 20 | Northern Ireland has never won the Home Internationals before but team manager Jim McGrory feels that this year 's selection is good enough to achieve success for the first time . |
| 21 | Significantly , despite his huge investment in bloodstock , Sheikh Mohammed has never won the Epsom Derby and the pressure will be on to have this exceptional three-year-old line up for the world 's most famous Classic . |
| 22 | His jockey , Peter Scudamore , has ridden more winners than any rider in history , but has never won the Gold Cup . |
| 23 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
| 24 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
| 25 | An even less flattering appraisal of her charge came from Libby Heath after Clare Villar 's Quick Reaction had made all to win the Men 's Open under Simon Andrews . |
| 26 | In the first round , a candidate winning more than the other candidates put together wins the seat . |
| 27 | Less than 48 hours later you 'd think they 'd just won the pools . |
| 28 | When I was 12 , my great hero was Van Cliburn because he 'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition , so he was invited over and played on my spinet . ’ |
| 29 | They stopped to help the Danes straighten their bent rudder instead of going on to win the gold medal themselves . |
| 30 | But Huddersfield lost the Cup in a replay at Bolton , the Wanderers , with their graceful and deadly striker David Jack , going on to win the trophy in the first final to be played at Wembley . |