Example sentences of "won the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 2 | A private operator won the first five franchises , but after that , the state company S J won all but one of the remaining sixteen . |
| 3 | In 1956 , too , a Spaniard , albeit an exiled Republican Spaniard , Juan Ramón Jiménez , won the Nobel prize for literature and Spain was the protagonist of another , undoubtedly more popular , cultural event : on 13 June 1956 the Real Madrid football team won the first European Cup championship . |
| 4 | Young blood won the first two foursomes — Chris Bradshaw and Nigel Parsons by two and one , Mark Stewart and Martin Patmore by three and two . |
| 5 | He won the first two frames and seemed on course to avenge a 10-5 defeat in last month 's Belgium Masters final in Antwerp . |
| 6 | Hodgson won the first two games but the retrieving ability and fitness of Wood proved decisive as he won 4–9 , 2–9 , 9–5 , 9–6 , 9–5 . |
| 7 | PAUL PAGE , 20 , of Langley Park , won the first major amateur prize of the season when he took the Berkhamsted Trophy in a sudden-death play-off with Matt Maguire after both players recorded one-under-par totals of 141 , writes Bill Meredith . |
| 8 | MELROSE won the first major sevens of the season , beating Hawick 24–6 in the final of Glasgow High/Kelvinside 's Ryden tournament . |
| 9 | Programmers Dan and Kathe Spracklen , who have paced the industry Since their Sargon program won the first micro chess tournament in 1978 , believe that about 90 per cent of this progress is due to faster speeds in the evaluation routines , and only 10 per cent because the routines themselves have become more chess-intelligent . |
| 10 | Biasion won the first three of the morning 's special stages but then lost valuable seconds when he spun and lies fourth overall , two minutes behind Fiorio . |
| 11 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 12 | Rab , with his new moves , a much more attacking play — he shifted his chequers like a whirlwind — won the first few games in fine style . |
| 13 | On 24 June Edward won the first notable victory of the war in the naval battle fought off Sluys ( Fr L'Ecluse ) at the mouth of the river Zwyn , at which a larger French fleet was decimated by superior English tactics and the better use of prevailing conditions . |