Example sentences of "they won the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They won the Grand Slam and got to the final of the World Cup . |
| 2 | Last year they won the premier award at the Welsh Festival of Light Opera , and have carried off more than 60 awards from the World Famous Waterford International Festival of Light Opera . |
| 3 | , 's export administrator , helped lead the Sudbury cricket team to victory earlier this year when they won the premier cricket competition in Suffolk and Essex . |
| 4 | Winning in Europe already … are gold medallist rowers Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent … from Henley … they won the coxless pairs at the French |
| 5 | Wolves have now failed to progress beyond the second round since they won the then League Cup in 1980 . |
| 6 | In the 1960s they won the Junior Ice Dance Championships at Streatham . |
| 7 | International prop PHILIPPE GIMBERT from Beglès-Bordeaux , a club which had acquired an unsavoury reputation even before they won the French Championship , has been fined FF8,000 ( about £850 ) for damages resulting from a punch in a club match against Rodez in December 1990 . |
| 8 | the Kirby Boys and they won the national competition or something or other with the , with them . |
| 9 | They won the Scottish Region Branch Award . |
| 10 | Last year they won the senior division championship for a club which won another five trophies . |
| 11 | Rangers go to Motherwell knowing that if they avoid defeat they will equal their best unbeaten sequence of matches — 38 — set back in 1975/76 when they won the domestic treble . |