Sentence examples for had won a competition from inspiring English sources

She had won a competition run by the company which hopes to sell the service to pet owners for £60,000 a time.

In December he announced that Cornell and Technion had won a competition among several universities for free use of city-owned land and up to $100 million in infrastructure improvements.

The Pinettes had won a competition back home, and the prize was a recording session in New York with Trombone Shorty and the rapper and hip-hop producer Mannie Fresh.

At first, getting back in the water was the last thing on her mind, but after some weeks, she said, she began to long for it — especially when she heard a fellow competitor had won a competition in Asia.

In 1983, Tschumi had won a competition to redevelop the Parc de la Villette in Paris (a negative photostat of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture's runner-up site-plan is displayed on the opposite wall).

When Dan Pearce was in primary school, he told his friends that he had won a competition to have one of his ideas made into a video game by an international video game publisher.

Indeed, they look as if they've won a competition to hang out with him.

Some of the men have won a competition to share a karting track with their hero.

There's another outsider wandering the studio today: nine-year-old viewer Charlotte, who's here having won a competition.

"I think it's kind of a natural thing to give to those who have won a competition a special treatment like this".

The nerd with the flowerpot hairdo looks like a kid who has won a competition to spend a day with [Barcelona].