Example sentences of "win [adv] the british " in BNC.

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1 LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly quit the game after a long illness , unexpectedly won back the British national title at Newcastle yesterday when she beat Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting less than 45 minutes .
2 Before turning professional in 1970 he won both the British Youth and English Amateur Championships .
3 In 1911 he won both the British Open at Sandwich and the German Open .
4 In the course of a remarkable year , Mhairi , who played off plus-two , won both the British and Belgian Girls ' Championships , the Scottish Girls ' Closed Championship and the Helen Holm Trophy .
5 His Embassy build-up flopped last week from an early Irish Masters defeat after winning both the British and European crowns .
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