Sentence examples for fancied for from inspiring English sources

Britain's Heather Frederiksen is fancied for gold here.

When skeleton was reintroduced to the Games in 2002, Britain's Alex Coomber was strongly fancied for gold.

Fancied for this race last year but blew his chance by failing to settle in first-time cheekpieces.

They have also booked him to ride Wonder Of Wonders, strongly fancied for the Investec Oaks, the fillies' equivalent to the Derby, this afternoon.

John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif were also fancied, for the remarkable deal they brokered on nuclear power.

The Irishman has at least three horses at his Carlow base who are more fancied for the Neptune than either of the pair he ran here.

The first three races resulted in spectacular wide-margin victories for fancied runners; for the on-course bookmakers it was an unmitigated disaster.

Of all the men in all the world, I haven't fancied anyone for as long, and as consistently, as I've fancied Take That.

"We really fancied Demba for a while but people have to remember we were paying £9m for him with his wages and everything else," he said.

GB's BC1-2 teareare fancied favourites for the team event (5.50pm) with the seasoned pro Nigel Murray and the live-wire David Smith.

Ever since the first rumour that Eddie Jones fancied Dylan Hartley for the captaincy, England fans have had to engage in some rapid rethinking.