Example sentences of "and won a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel very strongly that a man like Cram , who has served his country very well in the past and won a host of medals , deserves more loyalty . |
| 2 | If he demanded that an artist was dropped , the artist was dropped , nationwide — until a Texan broadcaster , John Henry Faulk , who was blacklisted by AWARE , brought and won a libel action in which he was awarded the record sum of $3,500,000 after a six-year struggle . |
| 3 | But Seawright revived the ‘ Protestant Unionist ’ label and won a convincing victory in the 1985 local government elections . |
| 4 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 5 | There , he excelled at maths and won a scholarship to Cambridge in 1967 . |
| 6 | Encouraged by local school teachers who recognised his outstanding intellect , he resumed his education at Ayr Academy and went on to Glasgow University , where he graduated M.A. with first class honours in classics and won a gold medal for Greek . |
| 7 | Studied at Trinity College of Music , London and won a First in Music at Newton Park ( Bath ) . |
| 8 | Hannah 's film had a dramatic effect wherever it was shown , and won a clutch of awards . |
| 9 | William Clarke 's All-England Eleven played 15 of Sheffield at Hyde Park in 1849 and won a closely fought match by just 10 runs . |
| 10 | James Spader , who took the role of Miss Shield 's brother in the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli film Endless Love and won a Cannes Film Festival award for his part in Sex , Lies and Videotape , will also star . |
| 11 | I went to the parish race night and won a bottle of wine . |
| 12 | His father had held army rank and won a medal in the last war . |
| 13 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 14 | At the end of McBride 's first season as coach , Doyle contested the re-election and won a surprise victory . |
| 15 | He took a first-class degree at Oxford and won a coveted fellowship at All Souls . |
| 16 | By the following month , furthermore , Reagan 's rating had dropped ten points , where it broadly stayed during the next three months while the administration successfully defended its budget-cutting package and won a stunning endorsement of the tax reduction measure . |
| 17 | At the same time , it can be a temple to art : in the tower of the Fridericianum ( the tower as metaphor of holiness and imprisonment ) we shall be presenting six artists who , in our view , have revolutionised art and won a place in the collective memory : David , Gauguin , Newmann , Giacometti , Beuys , and a living artist whose identity you will discover in due course . |
| 18 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 19 | But I was determined to carry on and won a full scholarship to the Escuela Normal , the teachers ' training school . |
| 20 | The women 's movement at the turn of the century raised and won a wide range of radical demands for women . |
| 21 | He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him . |
| 22 | A year after I arrived in Fontanellato I did so and won a scholarship which paid half my school fees . |
| 23 | She began to publish her poems in such places as Harper 's , and won a guest post on the magazine Mademoiselle . |
| 24 | He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 . |
| 25 | ‘ The United Colours of Personal Banking ’ — John Linsdell , Karen Jones , Wendy Miller and Cyrus Tadiwala — took the chequered flag and won a bottle of Tesco vintage champagne . |
| 26 | We have assembled a collection of three videos , covering last year 's National Park Conference in Brecon , the use and misuse of planning guidelines in one corner of Wales caused quite a stir when first televised , and won a CPRW award . |
| 27 | TENNIS heart-throb Andre Agassi smashed his way into the last 16 in the US Open yesterday — and won a kiss from movie star Barbra Streisand ( inset ) who must have pulled some special strokes to get past the minders at New York 's Flushing Meadow . |
| 28 | In 1863 , the race was won by Emblem and in 1864 by Emblematic — full sisters and both ridden by George Stevens who took part in the race 15 times and won a record five times . |
| 29 | The Round Table increased its share of the vote from 54 per cent in the first round on Oct. 28 to 62 per cent , and won a further 41 seats to bring its total to 155 . |
| 30 | In Goa the new Chief Minister , Ravi S. Naik [ see p. 37964 ] , expanded his ministry on Feb. 12 and won a vote of confidence in the state legislative assembly on Feb. 18 . |