Example sentences of "[Wh pn] won the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Boro rider Paul Bentley , who won the recent World championship qualifying round on his old track , is a reserve . |
| 2 | But it was the Whigs who won the general election ; and they returned to office committed to parliamentary reform , the measure which for all the variety of the causes of social unrest and of the disorders they prompted , came increasingly to be the focus of the general demand for change . |
| 3 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 4 | Dutchman Marcel Albers , who won the first race at Donington , compatriot Oswaldo Negri and Belgian Mikke Van Hool were all slightly quicker in testing during the week so de Ferran will need to be at peak to clinch top spot , as he twice did for Edenbridge Racing last year . |
| 5 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 6 | The Euro Horse Trophy was on time from the start and Rozier just held off Austrian Hugo Simon , who won the first World Cup final in this arena in 1979 , on Amaretto . |
| 7 | Kim Milson , who won the first match , once again won his section and was leading the series , yours truly in second place and perfectly placed going into the third match which was to be fished on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton . |
| 8 | Congratulations to The Mighty Fall , who won the first heat of the Cool FM/Kit Kat ‘ Make The Break ’ competition in the Limelight recently . |
| 9 | Wilkinson , who won the first set tie-break 7-3 , lost his way in the second when he was twice broken to trail 1-4 and although he retrieved one of the breaks , Castle had little trouble squaring the match . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | There was a question , ‘ Who won the Best Actor Oscar the year of Midnight Cowboy ? ’ |
| 12 | Jane , who won the best actress award for her role in Coming Home , recently married media tycoon Ted Turner . |
| 13 | It is not , I believe , a matter of coincidence , that the only current British World Champion is Jamie Delgado , who won the 14-and-under title in Florida last year and owes nothing whatever to the LTA or its training and development programme . |
| 14 | who won the bloody war , roof up were n't it ! |
| 15 | Milton , the winner of this year 's European Championship , finished with 2.92sec in hand over Jos Lansink and Optiebeurs Felix , who won the European bronze medal . |
| 16 | Silva , who was born in South Africa of Portuguese parents and who won the European Tour 's Qualifying School in 1990 , hopes that his victory will do something to lift the game in Portugal ‘ where so many talented players are struggling to break through ’ . |
| 17 | Creaney , brought up on legends of the Lisbon Lions side who won the European Cup before he was born , is due to play his first full match in Europe when Celtic take on Cologne in the UEFA Cup first round first leg in Germany this week . |
| 18 | Capriati , who won the junior French and US Open titles this year , admits she is ‘ excited but anxious ’ about playing on the tour . |
| 19 | Local knowledge paid off for Portugal 's Mario Barroas who won the individual title with the best of the Irish being former World Champion Bobby Smithers , from Dublin , in 18th place . |
| 20 | Matt Ryan … who won the individual gold in the three day event and led Australia to a famous win . |
| 21 | But a defiant Woosnam , who won the individual crown in 1987 and again last year , added : ‘ I wanted that third title very badly , and I 'll keep coming back until I beat Nicklaus 's record . ’ |
| 22 | The All Ireland champion from Donaghmore County Tyrone was a 2–1 winner over the underdog , who won the second frame on the black . |
| 23 | Foster , who won the international competition in 1984 , calls his a ‘ calm and classical building ’ which suggests ‘ ways in which the new can relate to the old , can pay respect but can also speak of its own age with integrity and without pastiche ’ . |
| 24 | Those players - Beaumont , Smith , Cotton , Uttley and the rest — became part of northern folklore and , more importantly , went on to form the hard core of the England team who won the Grand Slam in 1980 . |
| 25 | Beating the Ingham family monopoly was Michael Calvert ( Yorks ) who won the 16's title 7–6 4–6 7–5 against a tiring Richard Stamp ( Lincs ) . |
| 26 | The proponents of this view will advance Reagan as the great champion of freedom , as the man who won the Cold War . |
| 27 | Both played in the Joshua Tetley Trophy match at Scarborough last September , which Essex won by 154 runs , but the only other survivors are John Glendenen and Simon Brown , who won the man-of-the-match award . |
| 28 | Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event . |
| 29 | The race incorporates the Welsh championships , and among the 1,600 lining up will be Olympic marathon man Steve Brace , who won the national title the last time the championships were held in Llandudno . |
| 30 | Bergstrand , who won the British Championship race at Dollar two weeks ago , is obviously in peak condition and he will be trying to help Mandale retain their title in tomorrow 's Crook Cloverleaf Relays . |