Example sentences of "won the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutchman Marcel Albers , who won the first race at Donington , compatriot Oswaldo Negri and Belgian Mikke Van Hool were all slightly quicker in testing during the week so de Ferran will need to be at peak to clinch top spot , as he twice did for Edenbridge Racing last year . |
| 2 | He won the first race of the season in Australia but was injured before the Phoenix 200 . |
| 3 | Heinzer , the Mister Nice of the Swiss Team , exploiting an avowed intent to turn Mister Ugly — ‘ I want to go for the big wins ’ — won the first race . |
| 4 | He won the first race by 27 seconds and the second by 33 seconds . |
| 5 | His horse , Lad , won the first race . |
| 6 | Smith was on course to cross ahead of Steinlager 2 's track , the 84 foot ketch which won the first leg having slowed noticeably in the past two days . |
| 7 | He won the first leg at Nashville . |
| 8 | The team won the first leg 2-1 and drew the second leg in Belfast on Wednesday night to qualify for the first round of the tournament . |
| 9 | Dinamo won the first leg of the preliminary round tie 2–1 . |
| 10 | Your listening to the Fox Report ; sport , and last night , Oxford United Football Club won the first leg of their second round clash with Port Vale in the Rumbelows League Cup . |
| 11 | England easily won the first Test at Sydney ( Bradman did not play because of illness ) . |
| 12 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 13 | New Zealand 's victory — their first home Test win for three years — levelled the series at 1-1 after Australia won the first Test by an innings and 60 runs in Christchurch and then drew the second in Wellington . |
| 14 | Oxford won the first University challenge back in September . |
| 15 | BALLYNAHINCH 'S pack dominated the opening exchanges and made their intentions known when they won the first scrum against the head . |
| 16 | She won the first half , the Grand Prix , from Sven Rothenberger on Ideaal and Monica Theodorescu on Grunox . |
| 17 | Batty was having a serious confrontation with Alan Byrne in midfield Byrne won the first half . |
| 18 | Kenne guessed lemon , and won the first pull . |
| 19 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |
| 20 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 21 | Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life ! |
| 22 | Nasa won the first round of the legal battle on Tuesday , when a federal judge refused to order the launch be postponed . |
| 23 | Sixty-one year old ‘ Smokin' Herb ’ Kelleher won the first round ( by substituting a Texas arm-wrestling champion who had legally changed his name to Herb Kelleher for the day ) , but 37-year old Herwald took the final decision , then announced that Southwest could continue using the slogan ‘ just to show there 's no hard feelings or to be accused of taking advantage of senior citizens ’ . |
| 24 | However , his main opponent , Mohamed Taki , who won the first round of the presidential election , continued to accuse Djohar of vote-rigging and was linked to an alleged attempt to overthrow the government discovered in August [ see below ] . |
| 25 | Ian McCulloch won the first round with Colin Sproull and Eddie in second and third place . |
| 26 | Congratulations to The Mighty Fall , who won the first heat of the Cool FM/Kit Kat ‘ Make The Break ’ competition in the Limelight recently . |
| 27 | Owen Jelf says he won the first heat ; his brother the second . |
| 28 | JS won the first heat comfortably , under the captaincy of Nick Keyte , manager of Gravesend . |
| 29 | For half an hour or so she had Barbara Paulus , ranked 21st to Durie 's 102nd , chasing shadows as she won the first set 6-2 . |
| 30 | Wilkinson , who won the first set tie-break 7-3 , lost his way in the second when he was twice broken to trail 1-4 and although he retrieved one of the breaks , Castle had little trouble squaring the match . |