Example sentences of "take first prize " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soccer : McClair takes first prize RUMBELOWS CUP FINAL |
| 2 | He never lost touch with chess though , and on resuming active competition in 1931 he won the Western Open , before taking first prize against Capablanca , the great Cuban player , at a tournament at Margate . |
| 3 | He was delighted when his giant vegetable took first prize in the pumpkin section at the Newdigate Horticultural Show in Surrey . |
| 4 | Waterstones staff took first prize in two recent publisher competitions . |
| 5 | Fortuitous Ian Clark took first prize ( a bottle of wine ) , for guessing twenty-four correctly without clues . |
| 6 | A joint effort by Valerie Dennis and Anita Clifford took first prize ( box of chocolates ) for correctly matching all twenty-eight people using clues . |
| 7 | Yet again the BNFL entry , which sported a mock-up of the film 's famous pink car , took first prize for the annual procession 's best entry . |
| 8 | The children took first prize ahead of a hundred other teams . |
| 9 | Michael Maguire of Craigavon took first prize in the black and white section . |
| 10 | Des Lancaster took first prize in the sell-out St Helens AA Open at Carr Mill Dam with 9lb 7oz . |
| 11 | He got long , ill-spelt letters from Claire every week , telling him what Doyle had done , and how Mary the cook was going into hospital , and the Labrador had taken first prize at the Eadstown Field Day . |
| 12 | It would have taken first prize at the Policeman 's Ball . |
| 13 | One year I walked from Newby Head by Cam High Road to Hawes on a wonderful late spring day and carried on to Hardraw to watch my local band , Settle and Giggleswick Brass Band , take first prize from amongst a great deal of strong opposition . |
| 14 | I never expect to meet a decent man but you take first prize as a pig . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ As an optimist you take first prize , Aunt . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Smart partnered Len Ramsbottom of Diss to take first prize in a four ball better ball with 40 points . |
| 18 | Robert Wiseman Dairies , the milk processor and distributor which is widely recognised by its distinctive black and white corporate identity , beat rival Yarrow Shipbuilders to take first prize in the category for large manufacturing companies . |