Example sentences of "[verb] win the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 2 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Having won the first trick with Ace of Hearts , the best approach seems to be to play on Spades . |
| 4 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 5 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 6 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 7 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |