Example sentences of "[pron] won the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life ! |
| 2 | I won the first purse of gold , then a second , then a third . |
| 3 | I won the first game makes a change dun n it ? |
| 4 | I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour . |
| 5 | Smith was on course to cross ahead of Steinlager 2 's track , the 84 foot ketch which won the first leg having slowed noticeably in the past two days . |
| 6 | The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm . |
| 7 | She won the first half , the Grand Prix , from Sven Rothenberger on Ideaal and Monica Theodorescu on Grunox . |
| 8 | For half an hour or so she had Barbara Paulus , ranked 21st to Durie 's 102nd , chasing shadows as she won the first set 6-2 . |
| 9 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 10 | Dutchman Marcel Albers , who won the first race at Donington , compatriot Oswaldo Negri and Belgian Mikke Van Hool were all slightly quicker in testing during the week so de Ferran will need to be at peak to clinch top spot , as he twice did for Edenbridge Racing last year . |
| 11 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 12 | The Euro Horse Trophy was on time from the start and Rozier just held off Austrian Hugo Simon , who won the first World Cup final in this arena in 1979 , on Amaretto . |
| 13 | Kim Milson , who won the first match , once again won his section and was leading the series , yours truly in second place and perfectly placed going into the third match which was to be fished on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton . |
| 14 | Congratulations to The Mighty Fall , who won the first heat of the Cool FM/Kit Kat ‘ Make The Break ’ competition in the Limelight recently . |
| 15 | Wilkinson , who won the first set tie-break 7-3 , lost his way in the second when he was twice broken to trail 1-4 and although he retrieved one of the breaks , Castle had little trouble squaring the match . |
| 16 | However , his main opponent , Mohamed Taki , who won the first round of the presidential election , continued to accuse Djohar of vote-rigging and was linked to an alleged attempt to overthrow the government discovered in August [ see below ] . |
| 17 | The All Ireland champion from Donaghmore County Tyrone was a 2–1 winner over the underdog , who won the second frame on the black . |
| 18 | B.C. , who won the 27th final 35–3 , were thankful to be ahead by three penalties to one at the interval against a Newfoundland XV that showed a little respect for a line-up that included World Cup players in Dan Jackart , Ron Vanden Brink , Jeff Knauer , Roy Radu , Steve Gray and Tom Woods . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ I have many happy memories during the ten years , the best being when we won the Second Division Championship last season of course . ’ |
| 20 | And we won the next election . |
| 21 | BALLYNAHINCH 'S pack dominated the opening exchanges and made their intentions known when they won the first scrum against the head . |
| 22 | One year they won the second grade championship , with Mains as an outstanding left-footed fullback , but were not able to regain a place among the senior Dunedin clubs . |
| 23 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 24 | The opposition Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) had restated that if they won the next election they would seek a complete ban on low-level flying . |
| 25 | Five other nice but provocable strategies ended up nearly as successful ( frequent in the population ) as Tit for Tat ; indeed , one of them won the sixth run . |
| 26 | Mark Farrelly 's winning streak in the 125 series began at Desertmartin when he won the second race . |
| 27 | Erm he , he won the second world war in the Pacific and after the war he became emperor of Japan , well that was n't his title but that 's how he saw it . |
| 28 | He won the first leg at Nashville . |
| 29 | He won the first race of the season in Australia but was injured before the Phoenix 200 . |
| 30 | He won the first race by 27 seconds and the second by 33 seconds . |