Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] won a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 2 | ‘ Well ’ , — I was intentionally vague — ‘ by then you might have won a football pool . ’ |
| 3 | I could have won a couple of the frames but he just played too well for me . |
| 4 | Ms Chee may have won a battle , but the war goes on : ‘ The developers have targeted every hill in the country , ’ she says grimly . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | She was not sure , yet , how that might be accomplished , but at least she would have won a reprieve . |
| 7 | If we 'd fought that election on the trade union agenda , we would have won a lot more votes than the campaign issues chosen by the professionals . |