Example sentences of "[vb infin] won a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 2 | I could have won a couple of the frames but he just played too well for me . |
| 3 | He may not have won a championship , but he had taken Leeds from bottom of the table to fourth , their highest position ever , in a much stiffer competition than the Southern League . |
| 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 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 7 | On his day Gerry was as good a centre-forward as any in the land and would almost certainly have won a string of Scottish International caps had he been with a more successful club . |
| 8 | She was not sure , yet , how that might be accomplished , but at least she would have won a reprieve . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | ‘ Well ’ , — I was intentionally vague — ‘ by then you might have won a football pool . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You might not have won a beauty if you were poor . " |
| 13 | She would never have won a beauty contest . |