Example sentences of "win the [num ord] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus wins the first round in the battle against evil ( Mark 1 : 21–28 ) . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if Clubs are played before Spades , East wins the third round and can play a high trump , removing the last trump from dummy . |
| 3 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 4 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 5 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 6 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
| 7 | The Rona sheep had won the first round . |
| 8 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
| 9 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 10 | If he fails to gain an outright majority the Marxist former mayor of Lima , Alfonso Barrantes , might win the second round . |
| 11 | MOTOR RACING : Bicester-based racing car builders Reynard tightened their grip on the Japanese Formula 3000 championship at the weekend when Brazilian Paolo Carcasci won the second round at Fuji Raceway in a 92D model . |
| 12 | Philip Jackson won the second round of the club 's float only league at Bond 's Bridge . |
| 13 | Nasa won the first round of the legal battle on Tuesday , when a federal judge refused to order the launch be postponed . |
| 14 | Sixty-one year old ‘ Smokin' Herb ’ Kelleher won the first round ( by substituting a Texas arm-wrestling champion who had legally changed his name to Herb Kelleher for the day ) , but 37-year old Herwald took the final decision , then announced that Southwest could continue using the slogan ‘ just to show there 's no hard feelings or to be accused of taking advantage of senior citizens ’ . |
| 15 | However , his main opponent , Mohamed Taki , who won the first round of the presidential election , continued to accuse Djohar of vote-rigging and was linked to an alleged attempt to overthrow the government discovered in August [ see below ] . |
| 16 | Ian McCulloch won the first round with Colin Sproull and Eddie in second and third place . |
| 17 | He won the third round of the Isle of Man Archery League long metric three . |