Example sentences of "[pers pn] has won a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 2 | If one girl now has more than 24 beads , she has won a hole for each four beads on the other player 's side . |
| 3 | Rachel Karafistan , now 18 , who co-founded the Bare Essentials Youth Theatre , will know soon whether she has won a day at the Olivier theatre , working with actors and directors including Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen and Richard Eyre , as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge . |
| 4 | The 18-year-old from Dinas Powys , currently Britain 's best young player , learned this week that she has won a place at St Hilda 's College for September 1991 to study physiology and psychology . |
| 5 | He has won a day for himself and a companion at Doncaster Races on March 19 the opening meeting of the Flat by providing the first correct entry opened in our recent racing competition . |
| 6 | Dutch 's owner Ron Smith , f rom Manor Road , said : ‘ He has won a lot of championships already including best of breed . |
| 7 | For the first time in 14 years , the country 's top sprinter , currently sunning himself in Australia , has decided to skip the event at which he has won a record nine men 's titles . |
| 8 | He 's not the greatest header of the ball although he has won a corner . |
| 9 | As well as £2,000 , and a trophy presented by the Duchess of Kent , he has won a place in the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year heats in Brussels in June . |
| 10 | Telecom Australia , which trades off-shore as Telstra , says it has won a licence to build and operate a digital cellular telephone service in New Zealand ; Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd will also face competition in the cellular market from BellSouth Corp , expected to launch its network next month . |
| 11 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 12 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |