Example sentences of "[art] first leg [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BY a margin of two minutes 40 seconds the Soviet yacht Fazisi , with co-skippers Alexei Gryshenko and the American Skip Novak , finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este , Uruguay . |
| 2 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 3 | The Third Division side , holding a 2-1 advantage from the first leg of their Littlewoods Cup tie , were well placed at 1-1 before Trevor Morley struck twice in as many minutes and David Oldfield added another to wrap up City 's 5-3 aggregate win . |
| 4 | A John Thomas hat-trick enabled Albion to take the aggregate score to six apiece with a 5-3 win at Bradford , while Palace won 3-2 having lost 2-1 in the first leg of their clash with second division basement dwellers , Leicester City . |
| 5 | Gryschenko , 42 , from Kiev , had had grave doubts about doing the first leg of the race . |
| 6 | Atlantis was to carry the Galileo space probe on the first leg of a six-year voyage to Jupiter this afternoon . |
| 7 | Gryschenko had been known to be unhappy about embarking on the first leg of the race . |
| 8 | Gryshenko , co-skipper of the yacht Fazisi , which finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World race , left a note to his wife and parents . |
| 9 | Having held the Algerians to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of the tie , the Egyptians start favourites . |
| 10 | Gullit is one of several long-term casualties missing from the Milan side as they take on Barcelona in the Nou Camp stadium in the first leg of the European Super Cup tonight . |
| 11 | This was the first leg of a double for trainer Nicky Henderson whose Wont Be Gone Long won another nip and tuck affair to take the BMW Chase Final . |
| 12 | Prime Factor was protested by Britain 's Canon Express for an infraction of the basic right-of-way rule on the first leg of the fourth race . |
| 13 | On the first leg of the flight to Tehran , courtesy of one of the aircraft that also helped with contra resupply , North told Cave ‘ This is Democracy Airlines , ’ and laughed ; Cave had no notion what he meant . |
| 14 | Four of us were jammed in one compartment on the first leg of my journey — a train full of soldiers bound from the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator to Irkutsk , described as the Paris of Siberia , some 36 hours away . |
| 15 | COLCHESTER confirmed their position as favourites to win the Vauxhall FA Trophy when they took a 3–0 lead in the first leg of their semi-final with Conference rivals Macclesfield , at Layer Road on Saturday , writes Peter Ernest . |
| 16 | Edwards , switched to scrum-half for the injured Andy Gregory , was the catalyst of a well-disciplined performance by Wigan who now need one point from three matches to be mathematically assured of the first leg of their league and cup double objective . |
| 17 | Manchester United3 MANCHESTER United 's impressive season continued when their youngsters clasped one hand firmly on the FA Youth Cup with a 3–1 victory over Crystal Palace in the first leg of the final at Selhurst Park last night . |
| 18 | McNaught-Mandli has the worst possible start number for the first leg of the cup , which is against the clock from the start , for she is drawn to go first of 46 competitors from 13 countries . |
| 19 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |
| 20 | A few days before he resigned from West Ham , the club had been beaten 6–0 in the first leg of a crunch match against Oldham . |
| 21 | PUPILS at All Hallows High School , Macclesfield , played host to a group of 14–16-year old Spanish students on the first leg of a new Spanish/English Language exchange . |
| 22 | McAdam left for Gibraltar in a Sunderland on the first leg of the long journey home . |
| 23 | Four of 252 's Beaufighters had been destroyed on the ground during air raids while on Malta and the remaining four left on the same day for Gibraltar on the first leg of the flight back to England , each carrying three aboard instead of the usual crew of two . |
| 24 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 25 | The Scottish club , trailing 1–0 after the first leg of this second round tie , had to wait only 13 minutes before levelling the scores . |
| 26 | Lukic , normally rock solid , punched the ball into his own net to allow Rangers to draw level in the first leg of their European Cup tie . |
| 27 | Durrant ran the show against them in the first leg of the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ , forging through from midfield , skipping tackles and spraying passes non-stop . |
| 28 | Wednesday , 3–1 down from the first leg of this UEFA Cup tie , went about their work impressively . |
| 29 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 30 | The little Third Division side caused a sensation at Anfield a fortnight ago by storming into a 3-0 lead in the first leg of their Coca-Cola Cup tie . |