Example sentences of "won the [adj] prize " in BNC.
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| 1 | It won the environmental prize in the Young Engineers for Britain contest , as well as the Crest Gold award from the British Association for the Advancement of Science . |
| 2 | ‘ Our stable won the overall prize for the best turned out horses last year , beating Martin Pipe 's lot . |
| 3 | The 23-year-old senior flight centre consultant at Thomas Cook in Darlington won the globetrotting prize by answering 20 questions correctly in a quiz organised by the firm . |
| 4 | Nichola Mace , aged six , of Weyford Infants School won the final prize for her imaginative Little Mermaid costume . |
| 5 | That Fiji won the main prize so easily led to something of an anti-climax , but that was hardly the fault of the organisers , though they were to blame for the scant and often inaccurate team information for public and press . |
| 6 | He won the Stokowski Prize for conductors outright in 1989 , against a very large field . |
| 7 | They have also set up their own television production company , WTTV , developing projects including ‘ NEWSHOUNDS ’ with Alison Steadman and Adrian Edmondson , which won the top prize in the Best Television Film category at last year 's BAFTA awards . |
| 8 | With this project , he won the top prize in a course competition . |
| 9 | Anne Corr from Dungannon won the top prize and towards the end of April , Anne and one of her parents will fly to London for a hectic couple of days . |
| 10 | In 1965 The Knack was shown at film festivals around the world and won the top prize at Cannes , the Palme D'Or . |
| 11 | The highlight for Charlie , however , came in the eleventh week , when they left the barracks to travel to Glasgow where Tommy won the top prize for rifle shooting , beating all the officers and men from seven other regiments . |
| 12 | But she had to step down at one stage because she herself won the top prize of the day — and could n't present it to herself ! |