Example sentences of "won [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last January , it won them the Reader 's Digest /Prince 's Youth Business Trust Award '90 — worth £6,000 . |
| 2 | Mr Howe said : ‘ It was the only chance Arsenal had and it won them the match . ’ |
| 3 | At first the Romans consolidated their position in central Italy , moving north only in the third-century BC , when the battle of Mediolanum in 222 BC won them the most important city on the Lombardy Plain . |
| 4 | THE AUSTRALIANS have decided to concentrate on sevens with the same single-mindedness that won them the 15-a-side title last year . |
| 5 | Wimbledon 's success won them the Barclays Performance of the Week award . |
| 6 | The Australians showed just one glimpse of the sort of electrifying back play that won them the World Cup so brilliantly just a year ago . |
| 7 | And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match . |
| 8 | The Pakistanis ' brilliant attacking style , specially in the field , won them the admiration of cricket-lovers despite the controversies of the tour . |
| 9 | One man saved them ; one man won them the game . |
| 10 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
| 11 | Their standards of excellence won them the award for best staff restaurant , and they finished in joint second place overall out of all the shops , cafes , hotels , restaurants and canteens in the district . |
| 12 | It sold more than a million copies in Britain alone and won me the Billboard award for best singer/songwriter in America . |
| 13 | I was not a skilful boxer but I did have a knock-out punch , which connected early in the first round and won me the fight . |
| 14 | On April 30 some 2,400 police stormed the headquarters of the government-owned Korean Broadcasting System ( KBS ) to end a 19-day strike and occupation by employees protesting over the appointment as KBS president of Suh Ki Won whom the workforce accused of being too pro-government and anti-democratic . |
| 15 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
| 16 | Unhappy with the quality of local films , Van Leer began to produce his own : his first effort won him the Golden Bear award at the Berlin film festival in 1964 . |
| 17 | Peron needed the union movement for support and , indeed , it was the labour movement who brought him back from exile and won him the presidency . |
| 18 | He could hit it as far as a 3-wood — and it won him the 1973 Open . |
| 19 | In a curious way Ian 's enormous courage and determination in overcoming the double fracture — which many pundits feared would become a permanent disablement — won him the hearts of all Palace followers . |
| 20 | He became recognised as one of the most accomplished half-backs in the Division and his displays won him the approval of the fans on many grounds besides our own . |
| 21 | The 32-year-old Irishman said his struggle to return to the form which won him the world title and Tours of France and Italy in 1987 his 1987 level , when he won a world title and the Tours of France and Italy , had placed strains on his family . |
| 22 | Our Borders MP was David Steel ( who had beaten Robin McEwen at the by-election which won him the seat ) and as a member of his local Liberal party , I was invited to join the Scottish Liberal Party 's Council . |
| 23 | Durrant 's determination won him the ball at the byeline just inside the Marseille penalty area . |
| 24 | The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance . |
| 25 | His goalkeeping won him the man of the match award . |
| 26 | MAURICE Core 's battering-ram right hand won him the vacant British light-heavyweight title at Manchester 's New Century Hall last night . |
| 27 | FLYWEIGHT Paul Ingle was eliminated on a 13-12 verdict by strong North Korean southpaw Chol Su Choi — despite a rally that won him the last round 9-4 . |
| 28 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 29 | The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 ( see previous page ) , and the efforts of her Coxswain during the service won him the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum . |
| 30 | Yet Erhard 's honest , calm , and fair-minded character reflected a lack of political acumen and an inability to wield authority which won him the nickname of ‘ the Rubber Lion ’ . |