Example sentences of "[pos pn] first match " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Strangely , this is my first match against one of Ron 's team . |
2 | ‘ But I 'm certainly a lot happier than after my first match at Liverpool ! |
3 | ‘ when I played my first match against Portugal I was lucky because it was a bit of a doddle . |
4 | And so it was then , that on a cold , Tuesday October evening I set off for my first match … |
5 | I recently attended my first match at elland road ( V blackburn ) and was very impressed by the stadium and the atmosphere . |
6 | Loretto , despite losing their first match to George Watson 's , 3-19 , have good wins over King 's , Tynemouth , 24-0 , and Glenalmond , 24-0 , to their credit . |
7 | England , who have arranged two practice games against local sides later this week , play their first match in the six-team Nehru Trophy against Sri Lanka on Sunday . |
8 | In their first match , at home to Bashley , they equalised in the 88th minute . |
9 | In their first match , at home to Bashley , they equalised in the 88th minute . |
10 | Unless there is a cock-up against Costa Rica , who they meet in their first match , Andy Roxburgh 's team should reach the second phase . |
11 | England women 's team were beaten in their first match , 3–0 by Yugoslavia . |
12 | England 's double Grand Slam rugby team brilliantly repelled any thoughts of it being the year of the underdog , a thought that found encouragement only in the opening half of their first match against Scotland . |
13 | Forest 's only victory this season was in their first match — at home to Liverpool . |
14 | Francis made his move after seeing his side squander a hatful of chances in their first match since Hirst cracked an ankle bone against Arsenal . |
15 | WORLD rugby champions Australia celebrated their first match in South Africa for 23 years yesterday by crushing Western Transvaal . |
16 | The ladies event was a more straightforward affair , although Widdicombe and Morrison had to work hard to defeat Nicky Addison and Midori Stoyle ( Globe LTC ) in their first match . |
17 | IT WAS through a mist of mixed emotions that I watched the South African team take the field at the Sydney Cricket Ground for their first match in the 1992 World Cup , against the Australians . |
18 | Their first match is against a men 's team from Accounts . |
19 | DEWI Morris is one of 14 Lions playing their first match of the New Zealand tour , against North Harbour in Auckland tomorrow , un |
20 | we 've some better news at last of Gloucester rugby … the cherry and whites won their first match of the season on saturday … they beat cardiff at Kingsholm 16-5 |
21 | IRELAND beat the Scottish Under-21 ladies ' team 3-2 at Blaris yesterday in their first match of the season in preparation for next year 's World Cup . |
22 | The club also played its first match in October 1908 ( at Henley ) , against Peppard Golf Club at its suggestion . |
23 | And the Reverend Armitage was reported to be obliged to leave the 11th green with lumbago while playing for Henley in its first match with Maidenhead . |
24 | Australia 's Danielle Drady , briefly ranked No 2 in the world last year , lost to Holland 's Hugoline van Hoorn in her first match since rupturing an Achilles tendon last autumn . |
25 | McCool was omitted from the afternoon singles along with National champion Eavan Higgins so that Hazel Kavanagh of Grange could be given her first match in the tournament and Barbara Hackett from Castletroy her second outing . |
26 | TWICE US Open champion and former teenage sensation Tracy Austin began a comeback yesterday by winning her first match in nearly nine years . |
27 | In the first round Austin , the 1979 and 1981 US Open champion and former world No1 , won her first match in nearly nine years . |
28 | Lendl has never found it difficult to look sullen , and while blaming his lack of form on the fact that this was his first match indoors since the final of the Nabisco Masters in New York last December , lack of motivation was perhaps a greater factor . |
29 | Grainey , formerly assistant to Ashcroft at the Willows , will select the side for the home match against Leigh on Saturday , doubtless with reservations about his first match in charge being televised live . |
30 | With his name Anglicised to James Wattana , he will play his first match in front of British television cameras in the fourth round of the Rothmans Grand Prix on Monday . |