Example sentences of "[verb] win the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 2 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 4 | Everyone wants to win the First Divisiocn championship . |
| 5 | We deserved to win the 1st leg too . |
| 6 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 7 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 8 | I mentioned some of the problems we were facing and David asked , ‘ Harvey , do your people actually want to win the next election ? ’ |
| 9 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 10 | In the first place it financed a boom , helping to win the last election . |
| 11 | For example , " What do you think about Mr Gorbachev ? " or " Who do you think is going to win the next election ? " |
| 12 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems he just keeps winning the last point . |
| 14 | ‘ I think if I had the confidence of 2 or 3 years ago I would have won the 2nd set and probably the match , ’ he said . |
| 15 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
| 16 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
| 17 | The National Health Service was a genuine concern to many people , and for this and similar reasons , he believed , Margaret Thatcher could not possibly have won the next election for the Tories . |
| 18 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 19 | Having won the first trick with Ace of Hearts , the best approach seems to be to play on Spades . |
| 20 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 21 | Brian Lara ( 86 off 91 balls with two sixes and 13 fours ) and Desmond Haynes ( 59 off 71 balls , a six and seven fours ) wiped off the 153 needed to win the second match from just 25.5 overs . |
| 22 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 23 | But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team . |
| 24 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 25 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 26 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
| 27 | The Rona sheep had won the first round . |
| 28 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
| 29 | He had won the last contest on points , thank God , but he knew that a series of ‘ X ’ films , and the suggestive posters that were essential to their promotion , would give Father Whatsisname just the chance he wanted to point the accusing finger . |
| 30 | When I say it was a Government decision I 'm not speaking politically because whoever had 've won the last election whether it be Liberal Democrats Labour or Conservative all three parties were committed to reorganizing local government . |