Example sentences of "[noun] cup [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARR COLLEGE have won the Bank of Scotland Schools Cup for the first time , beating St Aloysius ' College by 8–6 at Ayr . |
| 2 | ST ALOYSIUS College won the Bank of Scotland Scottish Schools Cup for the third time when they defeated Galashiels Academy by three tries to two at Meggetland . |
| 3 | SHEFFIELD Eagles soared to the finals of the Yorkshire Cup for the first time — despite Hull 's stunning opening when Lee Jackson touched down in less than nine seconds . |
| 4 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 5 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 6 | A week later , Treloar followed up by winning the Rosemary Symonds Cup for the first time in 17 years , so ending Hammer 's domination of this tournament . |
| 7 | Vince Hilaire was a supremely talented winger who came to the fore in Palace 's great FA Youth Cup-winning side of 1977 , and then matured in Division 2 in 1977–78 while helping the club retain the Youth Cup at the same time . |
| 8 | Nottingham Forest0 Manchester United1 MANCHESTER United filled the last remaining gap in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet , as far as domestic competitions are concerned , at Wembley yesterday by winning the League Cup for the first time . |
| 9 | By December 1982 , when Celtic lifted the League Cup for the first time since the mid-'70s , Nicholas had established himself as the young sensation of Scottish football . |
| 10 | World Cup for the first time since 1972 . |
| 11 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 12 | In March they were received as World Champions by an ecstatic crowd after winning the Cricket World Cup for the first time . |
| 13 | England 's dreams of winning the cricket World Cup for the first time ended in disappointment today with defeat at the hands of Pakistan . |
| 14 | Victory by 92 runs meant that Clive Lloyd was holding aloft the Prudential World Cup for the second time . |
| 15 | Kent , taking full advantage of the disciplinary action that ended the 11 year reign of Essex as boys ' champions , won the Midland Bank Junior County Cup for the first time since its inception in 1967 , at Bournemouth during April . |
| 16 | A COMMITTED Colchester side could not prevent National League Division One side Old Loughtonians from claiming the Essex Cup for the seventh time in ten years down in Chigwell . |
| 17 | After winning a small chase at Ludlow he took the Hennessy Gold Cup for the second time — highly appropriately , as he was owned by Madame Kilian Hennessy of the sponsoring brandy company — and then , after a warm-up victory at Kempton Park , had beaten Fortria by a length in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 18 | I could not help thinking there was a wonderful touch of irony in the fact that guy Forget and Henri Leconte , plus their captain , Yannick Noah became national heroes overnight in France for winning back The Davis Cup for the first time since the Musketeers — even though they now all live in Switzerland . |
| 19 | THE Derry side that reached the All Ireland final in 1958 will be guests of honour at a banquet in Dublin to be held in conjunction with their county 's bid to claim the Sam Maguire Cup for the first time . |