Example sentences of "[pers pn] won the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life !
2 I won the first purse of gold , then a second , then a third .
3 I won the first game makes a change dun n it ?
4 I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour .
5 She won the first half , the Grand Prix , from Sven Rothenberger on Ideaal and Monica Theodorescu on Grunox .
6 For half an hour or so she had Barbara Paulus , ranked 21st to Durie 's 102nd , chasing shadows as she won the first set 6-2 .
7 He added : ‘ I have many happy memories during the ten years , the best being when we won the Second Division Championship last season of course . ’
8 And we won the next election .
9 BALLYNAHINCH 'S pack dominated the opening exchanges and made their intentions known when they won the first scrum against the head .
10 One year they won the second grade championship , with Mains as an outstanding left-footed fullback , but were not able to regain a place among the senior Dunedin clubs .
11 Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football .
12 The opposition Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) had restated that if they won the next election they would seek a complete ban on low-level flying .
13 Five other nice but provocable strategies ended up nearly as successful ( frequent in the population ) as Tit for Tat ; indeed , one of them won the sixth run .
14 Mark Farrelly 's winning streak in the 125 series began at Desertmartin when he won the second race .
15 Erm he , he won the second world war in the Pacific and after the war he became emperor of Japan , well that was n't his title but that 's how he saw it .
16 He won the first leg at Nashville .
17 He won the first race of the season in Australia but was injured before the Phoenix 200 .
18 He won the first race by 27 seconds and the second by 33 seconds .
19 Owen Jelf says he won the first heat ; his brother the second .
20 He won the third round of the Isle of Man Archery League long metric three .
21 In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years .
22 It won the last election by default .
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