Sentence examples for favourite took from inspiring English sources

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").

Our favourite took us down a valley from Vikos to the source of the Voidomatis, then steeply up to the pretty village of Mikro Papigo, in around four hours.

He closed with an 11-1 double, however, initiated when Upstaging, the 2-1 favouritooktook a six-furlong handicap before Noble Act, at 3-1, got home by a neck in the last.

The bare result shows that US Army Ranger, the 4-11 favouritookthek the Classic trial to confirm his place in the field for next month's Derby, but the stewards also felt obliged to inquire into the running and riding of his stable companion Port Douglas, who was just a short-head away in second under Seamie Heffernan.

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

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.

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

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.