Example sentences of "won a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The UK may have won a battle at the Maastricht summit , but not the ‘ war ’ , says David Lomax , Group Economic Adviser at National Westminster Bank , in his January economic review . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |
| 4 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 5 | Lisa Keenan , 17 , from Oxton has won a place at the University of Northumbria , while Lisa Hudson , 18 , from Claughton will study at the Preston-based University of Central Lancashire . |
| 6 | A TALENTED North-East teenager has won a place at the prestigious National Youth Theatre . |
| 7 | Critical respect is no problem — and the innovative video for his last album , Infected , even won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival , despite the troubling sexism of a couple of its sequences . |