Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [adj] victory " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 2 | In the women 's series at Perth , both Scotland and defending champions England coasted to comfortable victories . |
| 3 | Next door , in France , conservatives swept to triumphant victory in the general election in March . |
| 4 | CAMBRIDGE swept to decisive victory in the 139th University Boat Race yesterday — condemning Oxford 's rich array of Olympians and internationals to unexpected and crushing defeat . |
| 5 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |