Example sentences of "[verb] won a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
| 2 | VAUXHALL has won a top towcar award for the third year running , scooping five of the seven trophies in the process . |
| 3 | THE EDITOR of the EADT 's sister paper the Evening Star has won a top newspaper industry award . |
| 4 | SEX parlour boss Julie Williamson has won a top tourism award — for giving her customers a really good time . |
| 5 | Langbaurgh Borough Council has won a Royal Town Planning Institute Northern Branch Quality in the Residential Environment award for revitalising the Spencerbeck Estate , near Eston . |
| 6 | EMMA Gordon , aged 15 , of Netherfield Close , Alton has won a national music prize through her Grade VII piano exam . |
| 7 | A team of schoolchildren has won a national endurance competition in which the disabled and able-bodied work together . |
| 8 | •The Performing Right Society ( PRS ) has won a High Court action to prevent the owner of the Miramar Hotel , Blackpool , Lancashire , from operating a television in the hotel lounge . |
| 9 | The Marchioness of Blandford has won a High Court injunction against her husband , Jamie Blandford . |
| 10 | The Marchioness of Blandford has won a High Court injunction against her husband , Jamie Blandford . |
| 11 | The hard working team from British Gas South Western 's Plymouth & Cornwall District has won a special industry award . |
| 12 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 13 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 14 | By his own admission , the man who had won a European Cup medal destroying the best defences in Europe was having trouble finding the door . |
| 15 | And at 12 noon , the Secretary of State for Employment had announced that RBS had won a coveted training award for the quality of its training programmes . |
| 16 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 17 | I 've won a midi hi-fi system and a thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation . |
| 18 | SUSSEX have won a three-year sponsorship deal with Merrydown Cider which could be worth as much as £250,000 . |
| 19 | Lyles carpets have won a prestigious design award at the carpet industry 's main exhibition , ‘ The International Carpet Fair ’ at Harrogate . |
| 20 | The campaigners have won a temporary court ban on construction work and persuaded the Sao Paulo state government 's environmental department to reject four successive environmental impact studies by the project 's promoter , state water company Sabesp . |
| 21 | STUDIOS created for Courtaulds ' luxury flooring company Amtico have won a top design award . |