Example sentences of "win [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had won my first major title . |
| 2 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 3 | CCG has won its first major contract with BT Marine Ltd to provide catering and housekeeping services on board the 4,750 ton support ship the MV Discovery . |
| 4 | CCG HAS won its first offshore contract with BP Exploration , a multi-million pound contract to provide quality hotel standard service for personnel involved in the hook-up of two platforms in the North Sea 's Bruce Field . |
| 5 | Pegasus did n't win their first short corner of the game until the 28th minute , and that was down to Nadine Long , who at times was the only forward prepared to take on the Portadown defence . |
| 6 | She felt like a government health warning , but the sheer pleasure of having won her first big race made up for it all . |
| 7 | The High Elves had won their first major victory . |
| 8 | She may have been totally unprepared but she still managed to win her first round match quite comfortably . |
| 9 | Newly crowned league champions Dublin are 3/1 to win their first senior All Ireland in 10 years , with Cork 9/2 , Kerry 9/2 , Donegal 7/1 , Meath 9/1 , Derry 10/1 , Down 10/1 , Kildare 10/1 and Mayo 12/1 . |
| 10 | Bannister is poised to win his first international cap against Russia at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre tonight in England 's biggest game for 11 years . |
| 11 | On pole after setting a lap record during the qualifying session , Mansell became the first rookie driver to win his first Indy grand prix since the late Graham Hill won the Indianapolis 500 in 1966 . |
| 12 | Le Tissier , who is Southampton 's top scorer this season with three goals , has yet to win his first full cap . |
| 13 | To dispense with the basics , the Midlands deserved to , but failed to , win the match and the South West deserved to , and did , win their first Divisional title . |
| 14 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 15 | When you win your first big one , it is a big difference . |
| 16 | Cash bonuses come the way of the super seasiders whom Byrne plays 15 first team matches and wins his first full cap . |
| 17 | By now , rather than dreaming of becoming Regius Professor of History , I was planning my speech to the cameras when I won my first Open Championship . |
| 18 | Two weeks later I won my first national title at the Indoor Championships , taking the 200 metres . |
| 19 | Mark Petchey , Neil Broad and Sean Cole all won their first round matches to join their team mates with four of them moving into the quarter-finals . |
| 20 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday . |
| 21 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday to give themselves a chance of winning the North West group . |
| 22 | Last December her suspension was briefly lifted when she won her first judicial review of her case in the High Court . |
| 23 | New station Classic FM won its first major award as Radio Programme of the Year for ‘ an outstanding contribution in all areas of its programming ’ . |
| 24 | The new station Classic FM won its first major award as radio programme of the year . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards Wimpey won its first big oil-related job - a £10 million project to build 500 homes , a shopping centre , hospital , club house and industrial area . |
| 26 | The right-wing National Revolutionary Party ( MNR ) won its first departmental victories in two years by taking the departments of Cochabamba , Tarija and Santa Cruz and emphatically defeated the AP in the southern Andean city of Tarija , in the northern lowland city of Trinidad and in the country 's second most populous city , Santa Cruz de la Sierra , in the eastern lowlands . |
| 27 | Harriers have underlined their rapidly improving road-racing status by winning their first national senior team award , finishing third in the prestigious AAA Half Marathon Championships in Bath . |
| 28 | The left-wing New Democratic Party ( NDP ) , Canada 's second-largest opposition grouping , scored a spectacular success on Feb. 12 by winning its first federal parliamentary seat in the province of Quebec . |
| 29 | Murray won his first professional welterweight title back in 1989 at the Ulster Hall , outpointing champion Richard Hill of America . |
| 30 | Murray won his first professional welterweight title back in 1989 at the Ulster Hall , outpointing champion Richard Hill of America . |