Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had won [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lucky deal in 1863 caused his business to take off : he bought two sacks of Cape of Good Hope triangular stamps for £5 from two sailors who had won them in a raffle in Cape Town . |
| 2 | The years had not changed him too much ; he was still as she remembered , the same virile , darkly handsome man who had won her heart , held her as close as any man could hold a woman . |
| 3 | This was particularly true for those small communities , small towns , or groups of peasants , who had won their privileges after long struggles against a higher authority . |
| 4 | The other boys concerned , who had won nothing , did not suffer the same public shame . |
| 5 | He let the tears lie on his cheeks , and men cheered as he passed them , their young golden King who had won his crown at last . |
| 6 | At the next race it was entrusted to Jo Bonnier , a likeable Swede who had won his one and only grand prix 10 years before . |
| 7 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 8 | On proportional representation the Chingford Skinhead had quipped that they had an election in Belgium eight weeks ago and no one yet knew who had won it . |
| 9 | For the first half of 1946 I remained at school , where the privileged handful of us who had won our places at Oxford and Cambridge did no work , read widely , cycled to the seaside . |
| 10 | The result of this French Classic was victory for Prince Faisal 's Rafha , trained by Mr Henry Cecil and ridden by the all conquering Willie Carson , who had won our Oaks at Epsom the previous day . |