Example sentences of "had just won " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had just won the competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second time in three years . |
| 2 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |
| 3 | He had just won a battle with one of the local earls to whom he wished to teach some manners , although the reason for the fight is unclear ; but the Vikings never needed much of an excuse to fight . |
| 4 | Docherty was on the verge of signing a new contract with United who had just won the FA Cup and in an act of either remarkable honesty or unmitigated stupidity , he decided to inform the board that he was romantically involved with the physiotherapist 's wife . |
| 5 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 6 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 7 | Manchester City had just won the League Cup and this was the night of their gala celebrations . |
| 8 | One had just won her school colours , and the other had raised a lot of money for the Endowment Fund by collecting empty jam jars . |
| 9 | This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position . |
| 10 | On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise . |
| 11 | Perhaps she was attracted to Jacqui 's work because she had just won a prize for designing a new uniform . |
| 12 | Simon Vinkenoog , the founder of Sigma Nederland provided a piece from Amsterdam for the first issue on the then prominent Provos , the proto-Green anarchists who had just won seats on that city 's council . |
| 13 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |
| 14 | But — and here 's the point — second billing was given to a young Austrian lad of 17 who had just won the title of Junior Mr Universe . |
| 15 | On the other hand Leeds handed out a whopping defeat on a team who had only lost 1 of their first 9 and whose manager had just won manager of the month for September . |
| 16 | ‘ They certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves , ’ she said ; ‘ you 'd have thought that young man Danny had just won a Grand Prix instead of driving round a dodgem track . ’ |