Example sentences of "'s victory over [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week 's victory over Goran Ivanisevic was his first over a top 10 player and against Frana he never lost heart , even though his rival was holding serve far more comfortably in the early stages of both sets . |
| 2 | IN THE run-up to last Thursday I found my thoughts turning to a story Alistair Cooke once told to explain the most notorious of all opinion poll upsets , Truman 's victory over Dewey in 1948 . |
| 3 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 4 | Newtown off-spinner Keith Harding set up his side 's victory over Acton Reynald in Division Two , grabbing 7–41 in 22 overs to restrict the visitors to 91–9 in a game interrupted by rain . |
| 5 | The significant features of Arazi 's victory over Supermec and River Majesty were that the knee operation carried out last November appeared to have no effects and , this time , the colt was not racing on medication , as he had been when winning the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile . |
| 6 | Offa 's victory over Cynewulf in 779 , therefore , would seem to have been a signal for intensified Mercian activity on Offa 's southern border which may have been an essential prerequisite to any sustained involvement in the south-east . |
| 7 | In particular their student team 's victory over New Zealand Universities at the Students ' World Cup in France in 1988 announced their birth as a rugby nation . |
| 8 | That result surpassed Saturday 's victory over Downpatrick by runs , a match also played at Upritchard Park . |
| 9 | As a result , Constantine 's victory over Maxentius came to represent a miraculous triumph of Christianity over paganism . |
| 10 | The arch was built in honour of Constantine 's victory over Maxentius ( 158 ) . |
| 11 | M. Grimaud told her how Nîmes had been settled by the veterans of Octavius 's victory over Antony and Cleopatra , whose names , Antonin , Numa , Flavien , Adrien , persisted , even today , as did the emblem of the defeat of the serpent of old Nile , the Nîmes chained crocodile . |
| 12 | Last weekend Murray Chandler scored 1.5–2 in Solingen 's victories over Empor Berlin 6–2 and Halle 4.5–3.5 . |