Example sentences of "first prize " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notarbartolo cooked lamb cutlets with pimentos , wild mushrooms and a sharp shallot gravy to take first prize of a 40-piece Dudson china dinner service . |
| 2 | ‘ Sarah 's pretty , ’ said her mother , awarding first prize to her sister . |
| 3 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 4 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 5 | He has a long way to go before equalling last year 's prize money of £42,399 , but the wonder horse proved that he is again in irresistible form when opening Whitaker 's account with a first prize of £3,700 . |
| 6 | Speed was required last night , and It 's Me won the £3,000 first prize by 0.98sec from Marie Edgar on Everest Sure Thing . |
| 7 | NICK SKELTON 'S refined skill on the mare Burmah Serenade was rewarded with a £2,300 first prize in last night 's Rover Classic at the Horse of the Year Show . |
| 8 | Jose-Maria Olazabal starts the defence of his title today in illustrious company , teeing off with Bernhard Langer and Mark Calcavecchia , looking to pick up a £55,000 first prize . |
| 9 | STEVEN SMITH 'S perseverance with the brilliant but wayward Brook Street Picnic paid off last night at the Horse of the Year Show , when he won the £4,000 first prize for the Leading Show Jumper of the Year title . |
| 10 | However , the Nabisco first prize is £280,000 , whereas the Volvo top purse is only £66,000 , although that could be doubled if he is also the order of merit winner . |
| 11 | Readers who want to hear who wins the Peter Pears Award First Prize of £5000 can buy two tickets for the price of one in the stalls or dress circle ( £6-£8.50 ) upon presentation of this page at the Sadler 's Wells Box Office or by quoting this offer on 01-278 8916 Sun 6.30pm Sadler 's Wells , Rosebery Ave EC1 . |
| 12 | The Grand Summer Draw , the first prize for which was a Nissan Sunny car provided through AFG of Sevenoaks , raised £44,100 for the Association 's work . |
| 13 | This flounder brace earned Teignmouth , south Devon , angler Roy Repton first prize in last week 's Anglers Mail Fish of the Week contest . |
| 14 | Fifty-three hardy anglers turned out in Arctic-like conditions for the Matlock Open on the River Derwent at Matlock and Neil Atkins ( Belper ) won the £100 first prize with 11–13–0 of grayling . |
| 15 | — Two first prize winners will each win £1,000 of high quality fashion goods of their choice from the Freemans catalogue |
| 16 | The two first prize winners can each choose £1,000 worth of items from the Freemans catalogue , and there are fabulous second and third prizes to be won . |
| 17 | A raffle will also be held during the evening , which is organised around a Japanese theme , with the first prize a return trip for two to Nagasaki . |
| 18 | First , that he allowed Framework Management Ltd to go into liquidation admitting it owed £21,000 to Higgins ( who claimed he was owed £51,000 ) ; and , second , that he had caused to be issued in 1988 ‘ a press release regarding a tournament to be held in Peking stating , and telling Mr Higgins in order to induce him to take part in the tournament , that the first prize was £35,000 when in fact it was not ’ . |
| 19 | A year ago we won a race at Carlisle , nearer to the south than Kelso , where the first prize was £503 and the horse box alone was £500 . |
| 20 | In 1878 The Royal Agricultural Society reported in their journal : ‘ This farm , in fact , has all the requisites of a prize farm , and we had therefore very great pleasure in awarding First Prize ( in all England ) to Mr Long who will , we feel certain , consider it a recognition of the untiring industry shown by himself and his wife in the management of this pretty little farm … the arable land is cultivated like a garden , being wonderfully free from weeds . |
| 21 | Robert Cooper has donated a magnificent Normead heifer as the first prize to the draw , and Dalgety Agriculture sponsored all the printing and promotional costs along with Herdwise , which is supplying the second prize of 10 semen straws . |
| 22 | We are interested in all time and money-saving designs from farmers , workers and contractors and will award a first prize of £1,000 , two second prizes of £500 and all three third prizes of £250 for the best of the crop . |
| 23 | Farmers Weekly and Power Farming , in association with FAF and the Royal Smithfield Show , are running an inventions competition with a first prize of £1,000 , two runners-up prizes of £500 and three further prizes of £250 . |
| 24 | He built a prototype in 1988 and won the £7,000 first prize in the Douglas Bomford Trust Golden Jubilee competition the same year . |
| 25 | The first prize |
| 26 | First Prize Winner |
| 27 | First Prize Winner : Mrs K M Green from Shoreham-by-Sea for her composition of the autumn 's harvest . |
| 28 | Fifteen horses were competing that year for a first prize in the Derby of £6450 . |
| 29 | Once the first prize has been won by Conrad , J , and praise for some good work by such as Belloc , H , and Masefield , J , all the prose about glassy calms and heaving swells makes heavy weather . |
| 30 | If only he could inherit a few more of the great Australian chaser 's foibles , this afternoon 's first prize would be in the bag . |