Example sentences of "first leg [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryan Robson 's injury , a legacy of previous combat , was diagnosed when he had to be substituted 20 minutes from the end of the first leg at Portsmouth only 13 days ago . |
| 2 | A goalless first leg at Hillsborough had left the whiff of an upset mingling with the burgers and Bovril , but Wednesday cleared the air ruthlessly with four first-half goals in the space of 23 minutes . |
| 3 | He won the first leg at Nashville . |
| 4 | And just as in the first leg at Ibrox a fortnight ago , there were football fireworks at Elland Road last night . |
| 5 | A chance to sit back and remember their magical 3-1 win over Tranmere in the first leg at the County Ground . |
| 6 | the one that got away for swindon speedway was the final of the division two knockout cup … they were racing against Glasgow in the final … the first leg at Blunsdon finished in a draw … 54 points a piece … |
| 7 | Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park . |
| 8 | Swindon Town 0 Middlesbrough 1 BERNIE Slaven has been recalled to face Manchester United in the Rumbelows League Cup semi-final first leg at Ayresome Park on Wednesday . |
| 9 | But , according to Elland Road boss Howard Wilkinson , he has a hard task to follow the performance of Belgian official Alphonse Constantin in the second round first leg at Ibrox . |
| 10 | Moving on to sport now and Oxford United face Reading at the Manor tonight in the first round , second leg of the Rumbelows League Cup , the of a one-goal advantage from the first leg at Elm Park ; covering the match this evening is Mickey Inotta who saw Oxford 's bubble burst on Saturday as they went down 3-1 to Nott 's County . |
| 11 | But the 24-year-old , who made his debut last week , misses Thursday 's Speedway Star Knock-Out Cup first round first leg with Wolverhampton at Foxhall Stadium . |
| 12 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
| 13 | Bracknell defeated Keflavik 106-91 in Iceland on Thursday for a 250-196 aggregate win , and are at home to Milan in the first leg on Thursday 26 October . |
| 14 | United will be at home in the first leg on September the twenty second and away at Villa Park two weeks later . |
| 15 | Lawrence would have preferred the first leg on Sunday , March 1 . |
| 16 | The £1m Celtic player was in the near full-house crowd for the first leg on Wednesday night . |
| 17 | The teams will leave Liverpool on the first leg on Sunday , November 15 , but the actual challenge begins on Wednesday , November 18 . |
| 18 | BY a margin of two minutes 40 seconds the Soviet yacht Fazisi , with co-skippers Alexei Gryshenko and the American Skip Novak , finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este , Uruguay . |
| 19 | The £2,000 which Andy Austin collected , by finishing fourth on Elusive and sixth on Zobias , was considerably more than the meagre £240 he won when riding River Hill to victory in yesterday 's first leg of the Grade A Championship . |
| 20 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 21 | Fewer than 27,000 were at Old Trafford on Tuesday night to see the sequel to a thrilling first leg of a Littlewoods Cup-tie against Second Division Portsmouth . |
| 22 | The Third Division side , holding a 2-1 advantage from the first leg of their Littlewoods Cup tie , were well placed at 1-1 before Trevor Morley struck twice in as many minutes and David Oldfield added another to wrap up City 's 5-3 aggregate win . |
| 23 | A John Thomas hat-trick enabled Albion to take the aggregate score to six apiece with a 5-3 win at Bradford , while Palace won 3-2 having lost 2-1 in the first leg of their clash with second division basement dwellers , Leicester City . |
| 24 | Gryschenko , 42 , from Kiev , had had grave doubts about doing the first leg of the race . |
| 25 | Atlantis was to carry the Galileo space probe on the first leg of a six-year voyage to Jupiter this afternoon . |
| 26 | Gryschenko had been known to be unhappy about embarking on the first leg of the race . |
| 27 | Gryshenko , co-skipper of the yacht Fazisi , which finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World race , left a note to his wife and parents . |
| 28 | Having held the Algerians to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of the tie , the Egyptians start favourites . |
| 29 | Gullit is one of several long-term casualties missing from the Milan side as they take on Barcelona in the Nou Camp stadium in the first leg of the European Super Cup tonight . |
| 30 | This was the first leg of a double for trainer Nicky Henderson whose Wont Be Gone Long won another nip and tuck affair to take the BMW Chase Final . |