Example sentences of "[verb] first [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had won first prize at the eisteddfod as a boy soprano . |
| 2 | We would have first bite at the cake : ours would be the first footprints in the snow . |
| 3 | Mr Scannell warns that if you own French property you must plan ahead for inheritance — under French law your children will have first crack at the property . |
| 4 | Goalkeeper Alan Main fumbled a Glynn Snodin corner and , in the process , allowed Baird to scramble home his tenth goal of the season after John Robertson had failed to connect when he got first bite at the cherry . |
| 5 | FRANK BRUNO has astonishingly leapt ahead of British rival Lennox Lewis in the race to get first crack at the world heavyweight championship . |
| 6 | He got long , ill-spelt letters from Claire every week , telling him what Doyle had done , and how Mary the cook was going into hospital , and the Labrador had taken first prize at the Eadstown Field Day . |
| 7 | It would have taken first prize at the Policeman 's Ball . |
| 8 | They won first prize at the Hampshire Technology Fair in the ten to eleven year group . |
| 9 | Moved to the Royal College of Music , London in 1990 and won first prize at the Edward Boyle Piano Competition in December of that year . |
| 10 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |