Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Toney captured the IBF super-middleweight title from Iran Barkley when the doctor halted their bout in Las Vegas after the ninth round of their scheduled 12-rounder , while Markus Bott , of Germany , won the WBO cruiserweight title when he outpointed American holder Tyrone Booze over 12 rounds in Hamburg . |
| 2 | McDonald 's two-over-par round of 70 at Banff , coupled with a 69 at Fraserburgh in the first round , gave him a one-over aggregate of 139 and the Uniroyal Quaich for the first time at the age of 39 . |
| 3 | WHEN Sara Gomer , Clare Wood and Julie Salmon collapsed to a 2-1 defeat to Indonesia in the first round of the Federation Cup in Melbourne last December , they were the laughing stock of the tennis world , writes our correspondent from Tokyo . |
| 4 | Oxford United have been drawn against premier league club Aston Villa in the second round of the Coca Cola cup . |
| 5 | The Democratic Convention also won the mayoralties of the important cities of Brasov , Constanta , Ploiesti , Sibiu and Arad ( having won Timisoara in the first round , with 64 per cent of votes ) . |
| 6 | Sedgemore , 27 , who packs down against Maesteg in the fourth round of the Swalec Cup at the Arms Park tomorrow , works underground at Tower Colliery , Hirwaun . |
| 7 | This year , for instance , Jonathan Haycock , defeated Jeremy Bates , and Sara Gomer was beaten by Virginia Humphreys-Davies in the 1st round . |
| 8 | The London-based Swede , champion in 1988 and 1990 , launches his hat-trick bid against a qualifier and would face either another qualifier or Israeli claycourter Amos Mansdorf in the second round . |
| 9 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After losing to Richard Krajicek in the fourth round in Key Biscayne , McEnroe outlined how he would try to do for American tennis what he has seen Yannick Noah achieve for France . |
| 12 | He promptly consigned his five per cent of the vote to Mr Mitterrand in the second round , a gift whch the Socialist candidate happily accepted . |
| 13 | The North Cheshire Leaguers , who travel to Tattenhall in the third round of the Cheshire Cup , are captained by Mike Beckett who will be aided by his brother Richard . |
| 14 | Old Parkonians suffered the narrowest of defeats against Tattenhall in the third round of the Cheshire Cup yesterday . |
| 15 | Palestinian negotiators at the Middle East peace talks responded to the deportation order by delaying their departure to Washington for the next round of talks [ see p. 38740 ] . |
| 16 | The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches . |
| 17 | Oxford go first footing in Wales this Saturday to second division , Swansea for the third round of the FA Cup . |
| 18 | Champions Hampshire are at home to Dorset in the first round on June 24 , while Durham make their first NatWest Trophy appearance as a first-class county against Ireland in Dublin . |
| 19 | Connors faces old foe Ivan Lendl in the second round today . |
| 20 | JIMMY WHITE yesterday won four of the last five frames to complete a superb fightback against Alan McManus in the fifth round of the £180,000 Nescafe Asian Open in Bangkok . |
| 21 | BRITAIN 'S Laura Davies hit two early birdies but was able to pick up only one shot on overnight leader Marie-Laure de Lorenzi in the third round of the Waterford Dairies English Open at Tytherington today . |
| 22 | It was a poor situation in which to have to assume control : Palace were rock bottom of the League with only nine points from 18 matches and had crashed 1–4 at home to Millwall in the 1st round of the FA Cup ; their seventh consecutive defeat . |
| 23 | Tapie 's suit will aim to force the French Federation and French League to name Marseille as the country 's representatives to play AEK Athens in the first round on September 15 . |
| 24 | Hemel Royals .. 60 Reykjavik ..... 64 ( Reykjavik win 118-105 on agg ) KODAK HEMEL ROYALS followed Manchester Giants out of European competition last night when they lost to Reykjavik of Iceland in the first round of the Korac Cup , writes Duncan Hooper . |
| 25 | JIM COURIER 's string of 1993 match victories ended yesterday when he was beaten 7-6 ( 7-5 ) , 6-1 by Derrick Rostagno in the first round of the Comcast US indoor men 's tournament in Philadelphia . |
| 26 | He did n't do as well as Gene Sarazen in the first round at the postage Stamp , though . |
| 27 | Crewe Alexandra have drawn Leeds at Elland Road for the 3rd round of the FA Cup . |
| 28 | Indians of many parties have been terrified by the prospect of escalating Hindu-Muslim violence , highlighted in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh during the first round of voting , when 19 people were killed . |
| 29 | Come the tournament he certainly putted well enough , and we were there after a 70 in the first round and a shot behind Jack Nicklaus after the second round . |
| 30 | There were violent clashes with police near the Mediterranean port of Damietta after the first round . |