Example sentences of "won by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lancashire won by 5 wickets |
| 2 | The Queenslander won by five shots from the world No.1 Greg Norman , who finished on seven under par , with Britain 's Howard Clark one stroke further back in third . |
| 3 | Mowbray presented the trophy to Tim Ellis ( Seamer ) , who won by 38 points . |
| 4 | The 43-year-old US Open champion , who won by six strokes , had 37 birdies and two eagles in the five-day tournament at La Quinta , California . |
| 5 | Hetton are only a point off the pacemakers after they won by six wickets Langley . |
| 6 | James won by six shots with a 13-under-par total of 275 after his Irish rivals Eamonn Darcy and Christy O'Connor , jun , suffered a last-round collapse . |
| 7 | Well , they won by twelve points to seven , they move through to the semi-finals , just one match away from a performance at Twickenham ; reporting on the game this afternoon , Graham Cook . |
| 8 | Donald , Pringle , Snell and McMillan all looked healthily hostile as they blew away the cream of Australian batting for under 200 , and Hudson showed touches of class as South Africa won by nine wickets . |
| 9 | Leicestershire won by 55 runs At Taunton — Derbyshire 69–0 v Somerset . |
| 10 | But peter pulled away a bit in the second round ( Thomson 71 ; Thomas 74 ) and he won by four strokes . |
| 11 | Staffordshire won by four wickets with a ball to spare . |
| 12 | Widnes lie in third place , three points behind leaders Toft who beat Urmston by 22 runs and one point behind Didsbury who won by four wickets at Cheadle Hulme . |
| 13 | The home side 's West Indian professional George Ferris made the visitors struggle knocking back the stumps four times and taking five for 75 but Darlington won by four wickets . |
| 14 | He won by four seats , and Steptoe went out at nine o'clock . |
| 15 | After being restricted to 66 for six by Woodham Comprehensive from Newton Aycliffe St Francis Xavier School Richmond , were indebted to James Broadwith ( 47 ) and Mark Baxter ( 3–13 ) as they won by eight runs . |
| 16 | Thornaby won by eight wickets at Stockton . |
| 17 | In the first match , played at Derby , the visiting team from Sheffield mustered 68 all out , and Derby won by one run . |
| 18 | As St Johnstone won by two goals their fans chanted ‘ Who 's the tea-leaf in the goals ’ , proof if ever it was needed that some football fans are sadists in scarves . |
| 19 | And we 're staying with football now , we 've got one more match report to give you ; the Oxfordshire Senior Cup third round , most of those matches were called off , but one which did survive was Headington against Thame , and a good result for Headington ; they won by two goals to nil . |
| 20 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |
| 21 | England won by 34 runs . |
| 22 | Gooch and new boy Peter Such were the only England successes as Australia won by 179 runs . |
| 23 | Arkle won by twenty lengths , with Mill House four lengths back in third . |
| 24 | Keith Merrell made 65 against his former teammates and Chris Punchard weighed in with four wickets as Maldon won by 86 runs . |
| 25 | The bare facts are that Oxford won by 1¼ lengths in 17min 44sec to take the Beefeater Gin Trophy for the sixth successive time and register their 16th win in 17 years . |
| 26 | At Buckhurst Hill , despite Javed 's 6 for 37 , Hadleigh & Thundersley won by 2 wickets , Mark Seaden scoring 51 . |
| 27 | Surbiton won by 3 matches with one drawn and so represent Gt Britain in the 45 age group in the European Club Championships in June ( 45 's ) and September ( 65 's ) at European venues yet to be decided . |
| 28 | Veteran trainer Bill Wightman still keeps an ace or two up his sleeve and struck in some style when Catherineofaragon won by ten lengths under John Williams . |
| 29 | Redcar won by ten wickets in just 20 overs . |
| 30 | You wo n't be surprised to learn that they won by ten wickets . |