Example sentences of "[noun] won the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's 100 years on Sunday since Gentleman Jim Corbett won the first world heavyweight title under Queensberry rules . |
| 2 | Your listening to the Fox Report ; sport , and last night , Oxford United Football Club won the first leg of their second round clash with Port Vale in the Rumbelows League Cup . |
| 3 | JS won the first heat comfortably , under the captaincy of Nick Keyte , manager of Gravesend . |
| 4 | The team won the first leg 2-1 and drew the second leg in Belfast on Wednesday night to qualify for the first round of the tournament . |
| 5 | Rab won the first game ; nip and tuck , not much in it ; to lose the next . |
| 6 | Ian McCulloch won the first round with Colin Sproull and Eddie in second and third place . |
| 7 | The former Northern Ireland champion won the first frame 71-45 but McCluskey took the second 57-37 and it seemed as though the Ulsterman was in for a tough fight . |
| 8 | Batty was having a serious confrontation with Alan Byrne in midfield Byrne won the first half . |
| 9 | Sixty-one year old ‘ Smokin' Herb ’ Kelleher won the first round ( by substituting a Texas arm-wrestling champion who had legally changed his name to Herb Kelleher for the day ) , but 37-year old Herwald took the final decision , then announced that Southwest could continue using the slogan ‘ just to show there 's no hard feelings or to be accused of taking advantage of senior citizens ’ . |
| 10 | New Zealand 's victory — their first home Test win for three years — levelled the series at 1-1 after Australia won the first Test by an innings and 60 runs in Christchurch and then drew the second in Wellington . |
| 11 | Oxford won the first University challenge back in September . |
| 12 | Nasa won the first round of the legal battle on Tuesday , when a federal judge refused to order the launch be postponed . |
| 13 | Declan Hughes won the first frame against Shaun Mellish . |
| 14 | Dinamo won the first leg of the preliminary round tie 2–1 . |