Example sentences of "won a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has your clever idea won a £50 cash prize this month ? |
| 2 | Won a national competition — well a competition in a national magazine — by imagining how to put together three exceptional outfits for three occasions : a job interview , meeting a partner 's parents for the first time , and addressing a conference . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I AM pleased to bring the glad tidings that the British Guild of Beer Writers cricket team have at last won a match . |
| 5 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 6 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 7 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 8 | Speelman had won a pawn at move 29 , so his position looked far superior . |
| 9 | FOURTEEN NUNS battling to save their flock of 5,000 chickens from slaughter have won a further reprieve . |
| 10 | For the first time in her premiership she had won a knock-out victory . |
| 11 | Frank , at the age of 16 , had already won a scholarship to Trinity College in Cambridge . |
| 12 | Though he had won a scholarship , he would never be interested in the niceties of Greek and Latin languages . |
| 13 | Volvo has won a safety award for its innovative integrated child seat fitted to all new 900-series saloons . |
| 14 | Wootton Courtenay , a Somerset village of 90 households , three businesses ( a post office , a garage and a shop ) and a bus that comes twice a week , has recently won a battle to keep the heart of its community — the village shop — mostly thanks to the driving force of Stephen Parnell . |
| 15 | •The Performing Right Society ( PRS ) has won a High Court action to prevent the owner of the Miramar Hotel , Blackpool , Lancashire , from operating a television in the hotel lounge . |
| 16 | It begins with John Helm of Yorkshire TV introducing the speakers : Helm : Right , gentlemen , we have n't won a championship title since 1967 , but both of you know the rules — three falls or one submission and any knockdown and the one still standing retires to a neutral corner . |
| 17 | QPR v Liverpool Draws at Nottingham Forest and Wimbledon offered QPR a modicum of encouragement but they have still not won a League match for seven weeks , which is hardly the sort of record to have when Liverpool are the visitors , even though Kenny Dalglish 's team have lost three of their last four games . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was asking too much of Oxford , who have not won a game for a month , to exercise the same shrewd control at half-back demonstrated by Farr-Jones and Porta . |
| 19 | AROMAN Catholic Democrat who supports abortion has won a California State Senate seat in a traditional Republican constituency , thanks to the unintentional help of her bishop . |
| 20 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 21 | BY electing new and reform-minded leaders , East Germany 's Communist party hopes to have won a breathing space in its battle for credibility and survival , six months before the first free elections are due to be held . |
| 22 | BY electing new and reform-minded leaders , East Germany 's Communist party hopes to have won a breathing space in its battle for credibility and survival , six months before the first free elections are due to be held . |
| 23 | I could have won a couple of the frames but he just played too well for me . |
| 24 | The South Wales player , who yesterday reached the final of the BWTA tournament at Queen 's Club , has won a place at Oxford and starts a degree course in psychology and sociology at St Hilda 's College in September , 1991 . |
| 25 | The 18-year-old from Dinas Powys , currently Britain 's best young player , learned this week that she has won a place at St Hilda 's College for September 1991 to study physiology and psychology . |
| 26 | He was happy enough for Lyle to win ; desperately disappointed that he had not yet won a major himself . |
| 27 | By now Ballesteros had not won a major since St Andrews ‘ 84 , but the ‘ 88 Open was at Royal Lytham St Annes , where he had won in ‘ 79 . |
| 28 | Hagi plays for Steaua Bucharest , the army club who have recently won a sponsorship from Ford . |
| 29 | Otherwise , Mr Kaifu has won a small but notable victory . |
| 30 | Indeed GM 's Buick division has climbed to the top in surveys of customers ' satisfaction while its Cadillac division recently won a prestigious quality award . |