Example sentences of "won [pos pn] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Two weeks later I won my first national title at the Indoor Championships , taking the 200 metres . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Last December her suspension was briefly lifted when she won her first judicial review of her case in the High Court . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The new station Classic FM won its first major award as radio programme of the year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Murray won his first professional welterweight title back in 1989 at the Ulster Hall , outpointing champion Richard Hill of America . |
| 12 | Murray won his first professional welterweight title back in 1989 at the Ulster Hall , outpointing champion Richard Hill of America . |
| 13 | From the moment Galwey won his first international cap against Namibia two years ago the experts claimed he was too short for an international lock forward , too slow to be an effective No 8 . |
| 14 | NEWRY — Errol Lutton won his first international caps in Poland , and it is not only a boost to him but also to the club as they bid to match the big boys . |
| 15 | He won his first round match in the United States Open , putting Flushing Meadow into a party mood as he whipped Brazilian Jaime Oncins 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-3 . |
| 16 | Griffin 's next bout is tonight against the German champion Siegmund Franke , who won his first round contest 13–0 and Belfast 's World bronze medallist Damien Kelly will have his first fight of the championships . |
| 17 | That the winning of a British Open championship is a two-man team even can best be illustrated by two of the great tournament 's champions of the past — two immortals who owe a little of their immortality to the men who strode beside them when they made history : when Henry Cotton won his first Open in 1934 , he paid tribute to Ernest Butler of Sandwich , a caddie who was ‘ uncanny with his advice concerning the line of the hole ’ . |
| 18 | Though the script is not precisely what Barnes , who won his first full cap eight years ago , had in mind for the closing half of a remarkable career , he welcomes the opportunity to set several records straight . |
| 19 | Wayne Gardner won his first British motorcycling Grand Prix at Donington Park yesterday . |
| 20 | He won his first Scottish cap in 1965 against Spain by which time he was known as ‘ the prince of nigglers ’ , and one of the most unruly players in the professional game . |
| 21 | Edberg won his first round-robin match , in the IBM ATP World Championships , beating Czechoslovakia 's Petr Korda 6–3 , 7–6 . |
| 22 | In 1944 he won his first starring role on screen in A Canterbury Tale , directed by Michael Powell . |
| 23 | On Monday night Norman Dixon 's Headford Arms won his first competitive race in England after being bought as top lot in Cleveland Park 's recent auction . |
| 24 | There was similar ‘ first time ’ success for Scotland 's Barry McColl , who won his first national title with a win in the final over Justin Layne 6–1 , 6–1 . |
| 25 | Cheltenham 's Tony Allcock has taken to grass like a duck to water this week … he won his first national title on the green stuff in the Ulster Games singles . |
| 26 | Sunderland 's Billy Tyrell ( intermediate 54kg ) won his first national title after stopping two holders en route to the final in convincing style against Essex 's Richard Warman . |