Example sentences of "have won a " 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 The sight alone would have won a more sentimental soul , but the Balmoral workers shared their countrymen 's pride in hard headedness .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse .
8 ‘ Once the pains are alleviated , Jimbo , as well as us , will have won a supreme victory , especially if he is n't deformed .
9 ‘ Well ’ , — I was intentionally vague — ‘ by then you might have won a football pool . ’
10 Ms Chee may have won a battle , but the war goes on : ‘ The developers have targeted every hill in the country , ’ she says grimly .
11 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 .
12 You might not have won a beauty if you were poor . "
13 ( 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 . )
14 ‘ 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 .
15 She would never have won a beauty contest .
16 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 .
17 She was not sure , yet , how that might be accomplished , but at least she would have won a reprieve .
18 Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues .
19 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 .
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