Example sentences of "beat [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League . |
| 2 | RONNIE O'Sullivan was beaten for the first time in 25 snooker matches last night — Dave Finbow thrashed him 5-0 in the Dubai Classic . |
| 3 | Bangor , beaten for the first time last week , will be keen to bounce back to winning ways by seeing off Ruthin , who welcome back bowler Owen Hughes following a finger injury . |
| 4 | SOUTH AFRICA were easily beaten in the first one-day international against West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston , Jamaica , yesterday . |
| 5 | WAYNE FERREIRA won himself $100,000 yesterday — for being humiliatingly beaten in the first round of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |
| 6 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 7 | The Gaullist candidate , Chaban-Delmas , was beaten in the first round : thus ended the period ( 1958–74 ) when Gaullists alone had controlled the apparatus of state broadcasting . |
| 8 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 9 | Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important . |
| 10 | ‘ From what I 've seen so far , Alan looks favourite , ’ said White , beaten at the first hurdle again . |