Example sentences of "he won the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He won the BBC best radio actor award in 1979 for the Kreutzer Sonata . |
| 2 | His son , Jared , attended the academy and is now a student at Stanford University in California , where he won the National Australian Collegiate Athletic Association men 's singles championship this spring . |
| 3 | STEVEN SMITH 'S perseverance with the brilliant but wayward Brook Street Picnic paid off last night at the Horse of the Year Show , when he won the £4,000 first prize for the Leading Show Jumper of the Year title . |
| 4 | FRANKE SLOOTHAAK 'S fortunes changed abruptly when he won the Everest Grand Prix , the closing contest of The Horse of the Year Show at Wembley , for the second year in succession . |
| 5 | He won the Republican nomination this year largely because he persuaded conservative voters that he favoured ‘ life ’ more than his two principle opponents . |
| 6 | He conceded the hole and although he won the 35th two fours at the last saw Rafferty home . |
| 7 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
| 8 | By then he won the right to be an oddity . |
| 9 | Twice he won the Old Boys race at King 's College school . |
| 10 | He was wearing this brace when he won the 1966 German and Dutch grands prix in the Tyrrell Matra . |
| 11 | In the end he did it too , when he won the 1965 manufacturer 's championship for GT cars with his Shelby Daytona coupes . |
| 12 | This does not seem to affect his boxing , however , for he won the title for which he challenges tonight twice , and he held the light flyweight championship through three defences . |
| 13 | He won the first leg at Nashville . |
| 14 | He won the Kim Muir at the Cheltenham Festival , having previously finished seven lengths second to Roll-A-Joint at Chepstow , with Little Polveir behind , over three and threequarter miles . |
| 15 | The row erupted again when he won the Nobel last year , and the citation named the offending work . |
| 16 | He won few friends , but he won the votes that mattered to him . |
| 17 | He won the support of only a quarter of the delegates to the Rennes congress . |
| 18 | Inevitably , he won the Man of the Match award . |
| 19 | When he won the agriculture portfolio , the one he wanted , Irish farmers were delighted . |
| 20 | With the collapse of the coalition , Robinson felt free to challenge the man for whom he had previously campaigned and he won the seat by the extremely narrow margin of sixty-four votes . |
| 21 | He won the Sword Dancer Stakes in July , with 50-year-old Bill Shoemaker replacing his regular jockey Laffit Pincay . |
| 22 | He won the 1990 Midlands Grand National , from a handicap mark of 136 , by 15 lengths , yet runs off 138 today . |
| 23 | He won the Mildmay of Flete at Cheltenham two years ago at 66–1 and could give Robert Bellamy a memorable ride . |
| 24 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 25 | COLIN McRAE of Scotland recorded his second runaway victory of the year when he won the Carlisle-based Pirelli International by over four minutes in his Subaru at the weekend . |
| 26 | ‘ I felt after he won the Mandarin Chase at Newbury in 1990 that he would be a Gold Cup horse , but after he was beaten in the Gold Cup then I thought that the Grand National was his race , ’ Adams said . |
| 27 | Powell was reliving the afternoon of April 9 , 1988 , when he won the world 's greatest steeplechase on Rhyme ‘ N ’ Reason . |
| 28 | He won the Championship in September 1991 , but received his invitation only a couple of months ago . |
| 29 | Mr Ashe , who received a supportive phone call yesterday from President Bush , shot to fame in 1968 when he won the first United States Open at a time when blacks were still largely excluded from professional tennis . |
| 30 | He won the crown in Paris last month when he beat Italian champion Antonio Renzo . |