Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] won a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Things have n't been going well since my England call-up , ’ said Ferdinand , who thought he should have won a late penalty after colliding with Chris Woods . |
| 2 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | ‘ Well ’ , — I was intentionally vague — ‘ by then you might have won a football pool . ’ |
| 4 | Unfortunately , virtue alone is not enough ; possibly Carter would have been more successful and might have won a second term if he had been less intense , more flexible , less immersed in the detail of government and a little more willing to dissemble occasionally . |
| 5 | I could have won a couple of the frames but he just played too well for me . |
| 6 | Ms Chee may have won a battle , but the war goes on : ‘ The developers have targeted every hill in the country , ’ she says grimly . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
| 9 | The sight alone would have won a more sentimental soul , but the Balmoral workers shared their countrymen 's pride in hard headedness . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was not sure , yet , how that might be accomplished , but at least she would have won a reprieve . |
| 12 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 13 | ‘ Once the pains are alleviated , Jimbo , as well as us , will have won a supreme victory , especially if he is n't deformed . |