Sentence examples for favourite takes from inspiring English sources

A private funeral for the All Blacks favourite takes place the following day.

So it is later that evening when Damien Rice, an established talent and Irish favourite, takes to the stage back at St James's.

This version of our national favourite takes trouble with the cheese sauce — tangy from Dijon mustard and sheep's milk Wensleydale — while upping the ante with salty pulled ham, hard-boiled eggs, flat-leaf parsley and a crisp cheesy topping.

Sampras has already beaten him in the final at the Queen's Club so there is great excitement when the home favourite takes the first set 6-3 and suddenly dreams of becoming the first British men's finalist here since 1938.

The Monopoly pub crawl (monopolypubcrawl.org.uk) is another favourite – take your pick of 26 pubs in the locations featured in the boardgame.

An old primary school disco favourite took on a new, rosy glow (thanks Yazz: "The only way is up, baby, for you and me now").

Trained by Colin Tizzard, the 2-1 favouritookook control at the penultimate hurdle and pulled away to win by eight lengths.

With the pre-tournament favourite taking a lead into the final day, albeit a narrow one, he was strongly fancied to win a second US PGA title after his success at Kiawah Island two years ago.

This race was at level weights and St. Gatien had no difficulty justifying his position as 4/9 favourite, taking the lead a furlong from the finish and winning very easily by three lengths.

On the cusp of half time the giantkilling favourites took the lead.

For more of my favourites, take a look at this gallery.