I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deserved win/victory/success etc
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Larsson’s goal gave Celtic a deserved victory.
a party wins/loses an election
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Do you think the Labour Party can win the next election?
be on a winning/losing streak
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Celtic are on a six-game winning streak.
bring/win sb/sth fame
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Chomsky’s theories about language brought him fame.
confident of winning
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The Prime Minister appeared relaxed and confident of winning an overall majority.
earn/win a reputation
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As a young publisher, she earned a reputation for toughness.
gain/achieve/win independence (= get independence )
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Our aim was to achieve full independence.
gain/win sb’s confidence
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As team captain, he soon won the confidence of the players.
gain/win/achieve notoriety (for sth)
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The local church has gained notoriety for being different.
get/receive/obtain/win approval
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For over twenty years it was impossible for NASA to get approval for this mission.
notched up...win
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The Houston Astros have notched up another win .
on the winning trail
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New players should put the team back on the winning trail.
romp to a win/victory
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The women’s team romped to a 132–81 win over Ireland.
stand to gain/lose/win/make
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What do firms think they stand to gain by merging?
the winning goal
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Berbatov scored the winning goal from just outside the box.
the winning/losing team
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Everyone on the winning team will get a medal.
win a battle
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It’s essential to win the battle against inflation.
win a bet
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France won the game and I won my bet.
win a competition
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Lucy was thrilled to hear that she had won the short-story competition.
win a majority
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The Conservative Party won a large majority.
win a mandate
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He won his mandate to continue his premiership.
win a match
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Do you think we'll win our next match?
win a medal
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They won a medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.
win a point (= especially in games such as tennis, where the ball goes back and forth between competitors )
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I didn't win a single point in my first few games.
win a prize ( also take a prize )
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She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938.
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Ms Brolls also took the prize for best individual speaker.
win a race
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It looks as though he will win the race to be the Democratic presidential candidate.
win a seat
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The following year he won a seat on the local council.
win an award
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Caprio won the award for best actor.
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an award-winning novel
win an election
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Who do you think will win the election?
win approval
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His condemnation of the war won widespread approval.
win by a large/small etc margin
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The party won by a huge margin.
win custody (= be given custody )
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Their mother is likely to win custody.
win glory
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He wanted to win glory in battle.
win power (= win an election )
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The Prime Minister is facing his toughest challenge since winning power.
win sb’s admiration ( also draw sb’s admiration formal )
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His films have won the admiration of the critics.
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At the club, her singing soon drew the admiration of the older girls.
win votes
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policies designed to win votes in the South
win/draw/receive etc plaudits
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Her performance won plaudits from the critics.
win/earn/gain respect (= start to be respected )
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Morris eventually won the respect of his fellow workers.
win/earn/receive praise
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The trade deal won praise from the American business community.
win/gain fame
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He won fame when he appeared in the film ‘The Graduate’.
win/gain recognition
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The company has won recognition for its customer service.
win/gain/attract support
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Try to win the support of local shopkeepers.
win/get a contract
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They won a contract to supply 37 passenger trains to Regional Railways.
win/lose a case (= be successful or unsuccessful in proving someone guilty or not guilty )
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Lomax was a brilliant lawyer who had never lost a case.
win/lose a contest
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He won a public-speaking contest at his school.
win/lose a fight
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He always won every fight he was in at school.
win/lose a game
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A.C. Milan won the game with a last-minute goal.
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Arsenal lost the game because of a mistake by their goalkeeper.
win/lose a lawsuit
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She won a discrimination lawsuit against her former company.
win/lose a race
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He did not win another race that season.
win/lose a war
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The Allies had won the war.
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What would have happened if we’d lost the war?
win/lose an appeal
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Unless she wins her appeal she will be imprisoned.
win/lose an argument
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The party hopes to win the argument about how to reform the health system.
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The first one who resorts to violence is usually the one who’s lost the argument.
win/lose by 5/10 etc points
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We only lost by two points.
win/lose on points (= win or lose a fight because of the judges’ decision )
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He was knocked down twice, before losing on points.
win/lose the toss
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Malory won the toss and will serve.
winning formula
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With viewing figures up a million, the programme has a winning formula .
winning post
winning the lottery
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Do you really think winning the lottery would make you happy?
win/obtain/gain/secure a concession
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In the end, the strikers returned to work having won few concessions.
win/receive/earn rave reviews
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The performance earned them rave reviews from critics.
win/score a victory
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Today we have won an important victory.
win/secure a nomination
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Do you think she has enough votes to win the nomination?
win/take first prize
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She won first prize in a painting competition.
win/take the championship
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He won three national championships at Oklahoma.
won by a landslide
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The SNP candidate won by a landslide .
won comfortably
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Davis won comfortably , 9–1, 9–3, 9–2.
won...on the pools
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Dad won £40 on the pools .
won...Oscars
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The film won five Oscars .
won...scholarship
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She won a scholarship to Iowa State University.
won...vote of confidence
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On April 19 the new government won a vote of confidence by 339 votes to 207.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
probably
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In other words it's a relatively high risk gamble, but if your army holds together you will probably win .
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It probably won the Second World War.
■ NOUN
approval
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But the campaign hasn't won the approval of the medical profession, which still believes chips do us no good at all.
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A spokesman for Shaw said the resolution has a chance of winning approval in Congress.
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It failed to win government and parliamentary approval .
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Although it expects some opposition, PacTel remains optimistic it can win approval by year-end.
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Sutton's political credentials helped win the approval of the Founders.
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The effort to win quick approval of the so-called supermajority tax limitation amendment has raised a furor among some Democrats.
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She won approval anyway in the full Senate, which was then controlled by Democrats.
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Since this was one of the central objectives of the Midway operation, it naturally won his complete approval .
award
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Rayleigh won the team award with Deben in second place.
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Later he specialized in war photography for magazines such as Life, Time, and Newsweek, winning a number of awards .
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The morose Mitchells wins the wet blanket award .
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While neither of these games will win awards for plotting or scripting, Duke has more going on.
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The funds have recently won three Micropal awards for best performance among smaller groups.
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Of course it won him some award or other.
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Morose Michell wins the wet blanket award .
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It also won the National Book Award for nonfiction.
battle
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There should be no complacency about who seems to be winning the battle .
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Nico has been winning the press battles so far.
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It will continue to win some local battles .
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Do we think we have to win all battles single-handedly when we know you have already won the war?
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McCaffrey, 53, knows a lot about winning battles .
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These arguments win only half the battle .
championship
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At the beginning of this season Wilko said we had a better side this year than when we won the championship .
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Each of the previous three seasons, the school won the championship .
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He recovered quickly enough to win the Army squash championship .
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The two horses could give Dollase his biggest day since Itsallgreektome was winning the 1990 turf championship .
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Well, it ain't easy to win a world championship you know.
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Honda cars had won several championships .
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Last year they won the senior division championship for a club which won another five trophies.
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Knox also won the doubles championship , teaming with Claire Curren.
chance
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You play against the computer which operates at a chosen skill level so you could have a chance of winning .
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But virtually no one outside their party leadership gives them a chance to win five.
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All visitors have a chance to win some great health prizes.
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Once the leader in polls here, he now languishes in fourth place and is given no chance of winning .
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They also have a slim but slightly better chance of winning a vote for a referendum.
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No studious Unitarian cushioned in a Boston study had a chance of winning the West against such a spirit.
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He's selected to defend three soldiers who refused to fight in a battle they had no chance of winning .
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Perot has an excellent chance of winning .
competition
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An on pack competition to win a South Park Colorado holiday will follow in March.
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There is an information line for the latest news and a competition line to win tickets.
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I know that competitions are often won by compromise candidates, the pianists everyone on the jury can agree upon.
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The last time the clubs met in this competition West Hartlepool won 22-6 but that was six years ago.
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And it brought back the memories of bouquets and the first Miss World competition she won way back in 1911.
contest
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Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
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She win big writing contest , which not surprise me.
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MacQuillan was destined to win the contest , but I was prepared to get a strike or two in first.
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The company is 100 years old, and its birds win tasting contests all the time.
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Barbara has won countless glamorous grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977.
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Senate Republicans have little hope of winning enough contests this year to get a majority.
contract
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In addition, competition may mean that we are unable to recoup our initial investment even if we win the contract .
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One would make it harder for anti-union employers to win government contracts .
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Success is winning the Collesden Container contract against aggressive competition.
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If successful in winning the contract , it will involve a survey team travelling to Kasurstan.
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The first payment, in 1991, was made weeks after it won a contract worth $ 189m.
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Together, they won a landmark union contract for better pay and working conditions.
cup
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Rovers have won the Cup a record 22 times.
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The Kings gave me a chance to win a Stanley Cup .
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For Desert Orchid, it was a return to the course where he won the Gold Cup .
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If Gordon finishes fifth or better in the remaining four races, he will win his second Winston Cup championship.
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Don't try to fly and say you've won the World Cup .
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The Zeenders had won ten Gold Cup awards from their peers in the food business.
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As Strach says, it was like winning the cup or something.
election
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The election was won despite the spin doctors.
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He has decided that the election will be won or lost on social issues in the electoral middle ground.
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It is still worth fighting elections - and winning them.
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In the 1994 elections , Republicans won both houses of Congress for the first time since 1954.
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Only thus, they believed, could the election be won .
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In elections in 1921 Mussolini won a seat in Milan, and his party gained 35 of 535 seats in the country.
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Anyone who has noticed recent elections knows that Alan won that bet.
game
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We have to be on top of our game to win .
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There will be an objective for Samson to attain before the game is won .
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The new site will have features like games to win coupons, an interactive cookbook and more than 400 recipes.
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Ipswich hadn't won in any of their previous 5 games , with us winning our last 5.
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The mythology of the Tournament says the eventual champion will have to win at least one close game .
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Jason Chandler made certain in the dying minutes of the game , Good Sports winning 2-1.
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Bullies are always looking for psychological games they can win .
games
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I wonder if his absence is the reason we have failed to win the last two games .
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We won 21 games , we went to the finals of our tournament, and we won 10 of our last 12.
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We won the last eight games .
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No team had won 70 games before this season, either.
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Now, whatever Wimbledon do, Bradford will stay up if they win their last two games .
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But the 49ers have won nine of the games ...
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The Longhorns won 42 games in Austin from 1968-76.
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No team in the history of the Big East has won that many games in succession.
heart
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Since its conception, the Format has been winning hearts and minds as a useful mechanism.
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With his big car He's won your heart , and you have punctured mine.
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Patricia Polacco has won the hearts of millions of children with her rich stories drawn from childhood memories.
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Was this going to be the man who won Madeleine's heart ?
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Their charm and informality immediately won many hearts in circles high and low.
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He feels the piquant double pleasure of the secret millionaire who has won everyone's heart even in apparent poverty.
league
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I believe that one day Manchester United will again win the league title.
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We had a good shot at winning the league back in 1963.
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Huddersfield made up for their failure in the Cup by winning the League Championship in the next season, 1923-4.
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For a change, the Gulls may have to worry if their product is good enough to win the league .
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At a civic reception that evening Chapman announced that the club would not be satisfied until it had won the League Championship.
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He won four league championships as a manager.
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Manchester City had just won the League Cup and this was the night of their gala celebrations.
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Chelsea have yet to win a League game in his absence, taking four points from a possible 12.
majority
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The conclusion is that Nkrumah would have otherwise won by the two-thirds majority which was the general election pattern.
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Daley got 71. 4 percent of the vote, and won by a majority of 466, 672.
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Before hearing the poll results, Mr Major and Mr Kinnock voiced their confidence that they would win with an overall majority .
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In 1972 Richard Nixon became the first Republican to win a majority of Catholic votes.
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Yeltsin won majorities in more than 80 of the 88 electoral districts.
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The ruling party failed to win a majority in the parliamentary elections.
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It was only after the SPÖ failed to win an absolute majority in the general election of 1983 that he stood down.
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Because management usually controls a large number of shares, such resolutions almost never win a majority vote.
match
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He broke racquets, drew fines, and, most of all, won matches .
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Garry Kasparov won his chess match with the Deep Blue supercomputer.
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Grimsby are good, but United need to win these matches .
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Sampras has won only four matches on the clay courts of Roland Garros since 1996.
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At Bristol, Gloucestershire won their match with Cheshire by 204 runs, bowling out the visitors for just 68.
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We went out there and knew we were going to win our matches and crush them.
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Luke and Alejandro's three eldest sons had won their match .
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Anderlecht had won their last 21 matches at home and had beaten Manchester United so no one gave us a hope.
medal
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Redgrave has already won two gold medals and will become Britain's most successful current Olympic sportsman if he wins his third.
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They had won a second gold medal .
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He won a bronze medal for Britain in the 1952 Olympics.
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That is not to diminish any of the efforts of hard-working, courageous athletes who have won silver medals here.
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Nothing irritated him more than the suggestion that Redgrave would win a gold medal with any partner.
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I want you to win all the medals you can.
oscar
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Composer John Williams won an Oscar for his haunting score.
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Miss Bates won an Oscar for her performance.
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Greg Norman is like the movie actor who looks surprised when he wins the Oscar .
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Lemmon won an Oscar for his magnificent portrayal of the coward who becomes a hero.
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Martin Scorsese has never won an Oscar .
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Two years later she won an Oscar for Roman Holiday.
party
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The Democratic party has won the presidency only once out of the last six elections since 1964.
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The Welfare Party won 21 percent.
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To have an overall majority a party needs to win 326 seats.
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The party won no seats in 1990, but regained forty-nine seats in 1994.
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If no party wins this number, the new Parliament will be hung.
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When legislative elections were held in 1990 under domestic and international pressure, the opposition party won 392 of 485 contested seats.
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It now has to become a modern social democratic party which can win because of the popularity of its vision.
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If there was a single lesson I took away from Salomon Brothers, it is that rarely do all parties win .
prize
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Cher wins the prize for longest run of success.
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Taylor would win no prizes for softness and sympathy.
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Horton Foote wins the prize for drama, and the fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.
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It won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, which is why I picked it up.
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The first correct entry drawn by a representative from Statham Lodge Hotel will win the prize .
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Amelia began to feel better-the essay she wrote on car mechanics, a course requirement, won first prize .
race
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His colleagues vowed to win the race again in his honour.
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Instead, Schumacher won the race , and Villeneuve was fifth.
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Dunlop won the 125 race in style, and McWilliams did the double in the two Superbike races.
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In slalom I know I can win every race if I make no mistakes.
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Daru has been a revelation in the latter half of the season, winning his last four races off the bounce.
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The person who wins the race in Paris is not just stronger than his rivals.
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For the domestiques, it is not winning the race , but simply finishing, which is the height of their ambition.
scholarship
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Karen won a scholarship and, like all of her siblings, got a college education.
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He won a scholarship to Halifax Secondary School, sang in the church choir, and became a Scout.
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With one small child to care for, she went on welfare, and soon won a scholarship to college.
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Carrington worked hard, and with dedication, winning a scholarship .
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He won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford.
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In 1862 he won a minor scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated third wrangler in 1866.
seat
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The separatists had won no seats at the last elections, in 1986.
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Republicans defeated two incumbents and won eight open Democratic seats , four in the South.
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They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting, and the Socialists none.
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The national party was formed in 1980, and it won twenty-seven seats in the national legislature in the 1983 election.
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My old friend Roberta Fox won his seat in the state senate.
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In this second round the candidate with most votes would win the constituency seat provided that participation was above 25 percent.
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Mary Landrieu, D-La., won her seat by 5, 788 votes, squeaking by conservative State Rep.
support
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Gbagbo won support in middle-class areas of the capital, and in the north-east of the country.
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That cooperation was crucial for the Clinton administration to win congressional support to lift a wartime trade embargo and normalize diplomatic relations.
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Last-minute concessions had been made to disaffected groups to win their support .
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After all, President Reagan easily won support for his big tax cut in 1981 from a Democratic-controlled Congress.
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One of his forebears could have won the support of Wilfrid.
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Lake has won support from two key Republicans.
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A minority administration should face little difficulty winning Liberal Democrat support for similar objectives.
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They have articulated plans and goals and have won the support of voters.
team
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Both teams have won twice in three outings and a keen, tightly contested struggle is in prospect.
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Maybe the Bulls will be the first team in history to win 70 games.
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Swindon will go wild if their ice hockey team win promotion to the Premier League.
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And when one side emerges victorious, or appears to, their team has won .
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Read in studio A team of schoolchildren has won a national endurance competition in which the disabled and able-bodied work together.
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No team had won 70 games before this season, either.
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I suppose it nice to criticise when you team keeps winning irrespective, though for how long more I can't say.
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The Vikings beat the Raiders in overtime Sunday night, but in truth, neither team deserved to win .
title
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Their men's team has won the Peroni South title .
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And it's that devotion that's just won him the title of Britains most romantic top tycoon.
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Clough won League titles with both Derby and Forest.
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Ironically when Randalstown first won the league title two seasons Victorians again held the key to their title victory.
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Hoping to win his third Olympic title , in Barcelona.
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There were those who doubted that he would win even one major title .
tournament
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I know he's won some tournaments but he is simply not Open material.
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Starting early means starting fast for Jacobsen, who last year won two tournaments before February was half way through.
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Jack won his tournament and we missed the cut at Muirfield Village.
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Ballesteros had, after all, won sixty tournaments since 1976.
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If Frazar is going to win his first tournament this would be the place.
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During his career, he won 15 tournaments on the pro tour, the first in 1976 and the last in 1983.
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I fancy Jimmy to go all the way and win the tournament .
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If your team wins the tournament , you cash in.
victory
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Hugo Chavez won a decisive victory over Francisco Arias in his bid for a six-year term as Venzuela's president.
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January 18, 1977 Amlee, Cross, Hooton and Lininger win large victories in the recall election.
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Aside from elections, Councils were able to use pressure to win victories for Nonconformity.
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They had learned to speak, and so had won their first great victory over Time.
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He had won his own victory .
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Nixon, meanwhile, spoke and acted as if the United States had won a decisive victory under his command.
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As the Daily Telegraph said in a leader: The Government has won a very important victory .
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Even as it was, the Union general somehow concluded that he had won a considerable victory .
vote
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Not many votes to be won down that road.
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He noted that Wisconsin controls only 11 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
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Yet, once the vote was won , it became clear that there was a long road ahead.
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Perot did not carry a single state in 1992 and, as a result, did not win any electoral votes .
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The vote was also won by Mr Wilkins.
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With 223 House Republicans elected so far, the winner in a contested election would need 112 votes to win .
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In this second round the candidate with most votes would win the constituency seat provided that participation was above 25 percent.
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It takes 270 electoral votes to win .
war
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If Clarke wins , the civil war will endure-with the leader advocating a position loathed by his own party.
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So is Arizona winning this budding war for spring training sites?
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Its roots were firmly tethered in the arms race generated by the desire to win the last World War .
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But, if he loses the battle, he could win the war .
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Perhaps he really believes that he can win a war in the Gulf.
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Everyone was tired, and we decided that we would put off winning the war until tomorrow morning.
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It is certainly much easier for them to win a great many individual battles than to win the war .
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Turns out that Alice may have lost the battle, but she won the war .
■ VERB
expect
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But that debate and subsequent decision has been put off until October, when supporters of ban expect to win .
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We expect to win every game.
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He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go.
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Stanford, after all, was expected to win .
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A little more than half way through the race no one could have expected Molina would win .
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Very few people expect them to win , so they can go out and enjoy themselves.
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Gingrich was expected to win reelection in his suburban Atlanta district.
fail
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The 36-year-old blonde beauty was unable to hide her bitter disappointment at failing to win her libel action against the People.
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Thus, Endacott emulated Andy Goodway's unwanted 1999 achievement in failing to win a trophy for Wigan.
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The ruling party failed to win a majority in the parliamentary elections.
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Manchester United fail to win the Championship for 25 years in a row, but attract the biggest crowds of all.
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The United States has failed to win a gold medal in boxing only four times, the last being 1948.
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In 1989, Renault failed not just to win an award but even to find a place among the shortlisted contenders.
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When they failed to win , they left the Norwich church along with other New Lights.
help
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The Charter's commitment to modern, open services will help them to win the respect that good service deserves.
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The thing I have to do is keep my head up and keep working hard to help us win .
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There is some evidence that this classic federal government approach is helping Bush win the support that he covets.
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Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals' point of view, because it wasn't helping them to win the war.
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Sunday, the 49ers changed, and it helped them win .
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Also, Haines reckons that fair play has helped it win repeat orders.
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He said he benched the two players to help win the game.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a winning streak
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Can the firm extend a winning streak for a hundred years, without losing its high credit rating?
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Clear as day - I was on a winning streak, I'd hit a seam.
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Is this the start of a winning streak for Destefani and his in-line powered Strega?
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It was Charlton who stopped a winning streak at the end of last season which cost Leicester automatic promotion.
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Modern-day pirates have been on a winning streak.
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Planting the seeds for a winning streak, right?
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The victorious get to dream about a winning streak before being pummeled again the week after.
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We still have four games left and we can still put together a winning streak.
convincing victory/win
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After a convincing win in game 1 Kasparov fell prey to overconfidence, losing games 4 and 5.
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If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.
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It is the convincing win the Ducks needed, and Jody is more relieved than happy.
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Let's start preparing for a convincing win against Sheffield Utd.
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Lets hope for a convincing win.
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Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.
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Then, leading 12-4, Hall took three points running for a convincing victory.
earn/win your spurs
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But thanks to Sheila, now you don't have to go all the way to Dodge City to win your spurs .
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David had done absolutely nothing to earn his spurs when Samuel anointed him.
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Now he has won his spurs , he can afford to recognise mistakes like that without fearing loss of face.
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Pistoliers are young nobles who have yet to win their spurs and assume their rightful position as Knights of the Empire.
emphatic win/victory/defeat
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But Warrington achieved an emphatic win over Widnes with a highly disciplined performance.
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Cardiff recorded two emphatic victories in 24 hours, winning 9-2 against Whitley Warriors and 13-2 at Billingham.
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It was an emphatic win and a remarkable turnaround in his fortunes.
get/win/score brownie points
sb/sth/it won't be long
win (sth)/beat sb fair and square
win/collect/take etc the wooden spoon
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When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.
win/lose by a whisker
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Davidson won the election by a whisker .
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He finished second in the 1988 Superstars, losing by a whisker in the final event.
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In a race that was ultimately won by a whisker , the Powell effect may even have made the difference for Bush.
winning combination
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A husband-and-wife gold medal-winning combination at the same Olympiad-now that is unique.
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As for Batty's return, I'd say if all the team are playing well then don't change a winning combination .
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Needless to say, it was a winning combination .
won't take no for an answer
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Chang won the first set but lost the next two.
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Do you remember our first game of the season? We won 3-1.
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Gandhi won the support of many liberals in England.
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He went ahead of Nolan, winning by 15 seconds.
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His book won the Pulitzer Prize for literature.
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How much money did she win ?
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I could never win an argument with my father.
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It will take time to win her trust.
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Milburn won a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics.
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No-one really expected the Socialist Party to win .
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She always wins at Scrabble.
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The competition was won by a Nigerian student.
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The court case has been dragging on for months, and it's increasingly unlikely that she'll win .
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This was the first of many victories won by women's rights campaigners.
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What would you do if you won $1 million?
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who won the first Civil War?
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Who do you think is going to win ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Eventually Jim wins a competition and the conductor is reinstated.
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Gorelli, he'd won for a while, but now he was losing, and he was losing big.
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Our guys were losing to win .
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They play really smart ball and they often win championships, despite having a lineup which is somewhat less than imposing.
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We expect to win every game.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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She's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season.
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I kept looking for a big win , picking the right stock, stealing a big producer from the competition.
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Flowers made an excellent save from Roy Keane three minutes later as United threatened to record a big win .
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In fact, the bigger the wins , the harsher the criticism is likely to be.
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Last season this was United's biggest home win of the season. 4-0.
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He is the uneducated country underdog who takes on the bad guys from the big city and wins .
comfortable
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It was at the village of Bampton, and Grye had a comfortable win .
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It will be a major shock if Northern Ireland, despite losing skipper Alan McDonald, do not achieve a comfortable win .
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The girls had a comfortable three length win over University College, Galway.
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But with Rangers comfortable win over Dundee yesterday, Walter Smith's men erased some of the memories of last week.
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McCluskey, a summer recruit from Portadown, scored two tries as Instonians came from behind for a comfortable win .
consecutive
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Escude is one of his least favourite opponents, and has now notched up three consecutive wins over him.
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They have 18 consecutive wins since then.
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Flower power at Greenridge helped Albert Barron to his sixth consecutive win in the category for gardens not seen from the road.
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In doing so they established a new serie B record with their eighth consecutive win , beating Lazio's previous record.
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Swindon are looking for their third consecutive win .
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Two consecutive wins and the signing of the year have lifted a great weight from the place.
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That was especially true of Ipswich, searching for their sixth consecutive win .
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After falling behind to Penrice's goal, struggling Palace rallied superbly to produce their second consecutive League win .
easy
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The first one came after just 90 seconds. Easy win .
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He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years.
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Marcus Browning got it to send Hereford on the way to an easy win over Halifax Town.
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He also had an easy win over John McKenna four years later - the tussle ending seven and six.
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Radbroke Hall had an easy win at home to Langley, dismissing the visitors for 97 and reaching 102-4 themselves.
great
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A great Bicester win 15 points to 6.
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The people in Fresno thought it was a great win .
narrow
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Durham had narrow one point win over Durham Ladies at Hartlepool yesterday.
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Edinburgh survived a narrow 65-64 win over Bedford in their pool and went on to defeat surprise semi-finalists Heriot Watt 70-42.
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And how little they realised the implications of such a narrow win .
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A narrow win resulted in criticism.
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A narrow win for Labour would add a further dose of poison.
successive
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It is Liverpool's third successive win .
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Derby, with six successive wins , could have both Blades and Goddard back after injury.
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For Coulthard, the prospect of posting a third successive Silverstone win looks a forlorn hope at best after another disappointing race.
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Sheffield United looked to be heading for their third successive home win when substitute Simon Milton found space on the right.
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Emperor Charles bids to give Reading-based Chris Bennett his second successive win in the opening hunt race.
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Boldon, on the other hand, have made a great start with three successive wins .
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Only a six-year-old, Young Hustler is seeking his sixth successive win - and his eighth in all this season.
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Northern, seeking their eighth successive League win , were caught cold by Castleford.
■ NOUN
cup
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Remember it's getting close on 20 years since their last Currie Cup win .
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Malvern have still to register a cup win despite reaching the final five times since 1966.
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If the backs had taken all their chances, Quins might have beaten Gloucester's record 80-point Cup win over Exeter.
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A first win in the group-and a first World Cup win since August 1996-seemed at hand.
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The aftermath of the cup win was not without incident.
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The 20-year-old loose forward's combination with Harris was devastating in the cup win at Castleford.
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United had won promotion all the way to the 1st division, the Milk Cup win capping a glorious but brief revival.
home
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Sheffield United looked to be heading for their third successive home win when substitute Simon Milton found space on the right.
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Last season this was United's biggest home win of the season. 4-0.
league
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It was United's first league win and their points of the new season.
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Their last league win , 3-2 against Southend 8 weeks ago.
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But what better place for Swindon to score their first league win of the season.
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Stoke, still searching for a League win , recall £250,000 front-man Biggins, fit after knee surgery.
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Northern, seeking their eighth successive League win , were caught cold by Castleford.
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Southampton should have registered a club record seventh successive League win but failed to turn their general superiority into goals.
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Ferguson's side have now managed only their eighth League win in 25 attempts this year.
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In the fourth division Hereford scored their first league win of the year.
■ VERB
record
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Broken cheekbone Stowmarket recovered from their thrashing to record a 64-run win at home to Witham.
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Flowers made an excellent save from Roy Keane three minutes later as United threatened to record a big win .
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Miss Bothway recorded her first win between the flags for two years at High Easter on Saturday.
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Slaven's two first-half goals lifted the game and Middlesbrough went on to record their highest win of the season.
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Quins led 20-7 at the break, but Rugby scored 22 points in the second half to record their second league win .
score
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But Schuey was in top form and the triple world beater always looked odds-on to score his fifth win on the trot.
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They also hold the League's record score a 21-0 win over North Skelton Rovers in 1895.
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Tillingham scored their first win of the campaign against a strong Hatfield Peverel side, with Wilkin the hero making 61.
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Meanwhile, Stuart Easton waited until the final round of the year to score his maiden win on the Vimto Honda 125.
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Lisa Ashdown scored a useful win over the new junior boys' champion Paul Davison.
seal
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Watson dropped shots down the stretch, while Levi completed a round of 69 that sealed a four-shot win over Payne Stewart.
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An own goal and a Freeman effort sealed Nova's win , despite a late Hope Farm goal.
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Paul Brooker gave the Seagulls the lead and Bobby Zamora sealed the win with his 21st of the season.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I/we won't eat you
a winning streak
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Can the firm extend a winning streak for a hundred years, without losing its high credit rating?
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Clear as day - I was on a winning streak, I'd hit a seam.
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Is this the start of a winning streak for Destefani and his in-line powered Strega?
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It was Charlton who stopped a winning streak at the end of last season which cost Leicester automatic promotion.
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Modern-day pirates have been on a winning streak.
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Planting the seeds for a winning streak, right?
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The victorious get to dream about a winning streak before being pummeled again the week after.
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We still have four games left and we can still put together a winning streak.
convincing victory/win
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After a convincing win in game 1 Kasparov fell prey to overconfidence, losing games 4 and 5.
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If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.
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It is the convincing win the Ducks needed, and Jody is more relieved than happy.
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Let's start preparing for a convincing win against Sheffield Utd.
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Lets hope for a convincing win.
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Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.
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Then, leading 12-4, Hall took three points running for a convincing victory.
earn/win your spurs
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But thanks to Sheila, now you don't have to go all the way to Dodge City to win your spurs .
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David had done absolutely nothing to earn his spurs when Samuel anointed him.
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Now he has won his spurs , he can afford to recognise mistakes like that without fearing loss of face.
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Pistoliers are young nobles who have yet to win their spurs and assume their rightful position as Knights of the Empire.
emphatic win/victory/defeat
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But Warrington achieved an emphatic win over Widnes with a highly disciplined performance.
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Cardiff recorded two emphatic victories in 24 hours, winning 9-2 against Whitley Warriors and 13-2 at Billingham.
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It was an emphatic win and a remarkable turnaround in his fortunes.
get/win/score brownie points
he/she won't bite
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Well, go and ask him if he can help you - he won't bite !
it won't/wouldn't kill sb (to do something)
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It wouldn't kill you to do the dishes.
sb won't thank you (for doing sth)
sb/sth/it won't be long
seal a victory/win/match
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Andy Cole's first international goal sealed victory in injury time.
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He then supplied the finishing touch to a 32-pass move to seal victory.
sth doesn't/won't wash (with sb)
sth won't/doesn't hurt
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The house looks pretty good, but a fresh paint job wouldn't hurt either.
win (sth)/beat sb fair and square
win/collect/take etc the wooden spoon
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When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.
win/lose by a whisker
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Davidson won the election by a whisker .
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He finished second in the 1988 Superstars, losing by a whisker in the final event.
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In a race that was ultimately won by a whisker , the Powell effect may even have made the difference for Bush.
won't take no for an answer
won't/can't have sth
won't/wouldn't hear of it
you won't catch me doing sth
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You won't catch me ironing his shirts!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 2-0 win over their oldest rivals
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A couple from London are celebrating a big lottery win .
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It was an important win for Manchester United.
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The Broncos opened the season with 12 wins in their first 13 games.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although I have a soft spot for him after his super-game Hennessy win , he does not appeal greatly as 7-2 favourite.
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Counting on some momentum from his win over Gramm in Louisiana, but has little organization and money in Iowa.
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Czechoslovakia reached the quarter-finals on the dubious claim of one win and three draws.
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McCain's win changes many things, both for himself and for Bush.
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Newton Aycliffe after disappointing recently at last returned to winning form with a 3-0 win over relegation candidates Usworth Village.
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The hamstring pull which put Lydon out of the Test series was sustained in the closing minutes of a 50-4 win over Chorley.
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Those Republican wins came two years after Clinton carried Ohio against Bush.
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Will the Warriors put together a modest winning streak with a win over their northern California rivals?