Example sentences of "[vb infin] won [art] " 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Healey said that Labour , always having had a majority of men , would have won every election since 1922 if women had n't been given the vote . |
| 21 | The AS/400 business is widely hailed as one of IBM 's few current successes : in fact it 's a failure — it should have won every System/36 user by now , and have won enough formerly non-IBM customers to be running at between $25,000m and $30,000m a year , not the $14,000m it is currently doing . |
| 22 | In Britain , under PR , no government since the Second World War would have won an overall majority . |
| 23 | Wasim Akram finished with 6 for 67 and an uncontrollable grin , and must have felt that this , of all his dramatic performances , must have won an important match . |
| 24 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of May 23 speculated that Do Muoi " may have won an extension of the deadline for switching from accounting in transferable roubles to hard currency , set for April 1 " . |
| 25 | Brian Salt ( Rists ) could have won the Kidsgrove Open on the Trent and Mersey Canal if he had n't missed his keepnet with an 8 oz roach . |
| 26 | Red Rum may have won the race , but never mind the facts . |
| 27 | Foinavon should not have won the 1967 Grand National . |
| 28 | Mr Alan Bleasdale , author of the Channel Four serial GBH , which the four jurors say should have won the best serial prize , joined the row , saying he wanted to share the award . |
| 29 | A local man would have won the seat . ’ |
| 30 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , is warmly liked and admired , but will need to overcome some reservations about whether , had she been a man , she would have won the Cabinet place on intellect alone . |