Sentence examples for winner first from inspiring English sources

The Whitbread Prize winner first strayed into the genre in 2004 with Case Histories, a wickedly hybrid novel.

Where The Money's Going Yesterday's Curragh winner First Cornerstone has been introduced into the lists for next year's Derby at 33-1.

"I think we saw a winner, first and foremost, a guy you kind of hate to play against but love to have on your team," Levine said.

And it was Cardiff who almost snatched a late winner, first through Lex Immers, whose shot was blocked by Ward, and then through Zohore.

And I can testify to some extent to the sea change that has taken place among the community of West End hoofers between 1976, when the late Michael Bennett's Pulitzer prize winner first crossed the Atlantic, and now, where Bennett's collaborator, Bob Avian, has opened the first West End revival, this time at the London Palladium.

There are more experiments to come: in the WTA, with a similar format, and in Sydney in the New Year, when Federer and Lleyton Hewitt will launch a pared-down form of the game, again with no ad scoring and no lets, tie-breaks at 3-all and the winner first to four games.

Rather than causing a tousle trying to determine a real winner, first-place trophies were presented to both competitors.

"All they really want is a winner," second baseman Rickie Weeks said.

Scrappy T finished second and Giacomo, the Kentucky Derby winner, third.

SILVIO GUERRA of Ecuador was fourth in 2 10 36, JOHN KAGWE of Kenya (the 1997 and 1998 winner) seventh in 2 11 57 and JOSEPH CHEBET of Kenya (the 1999 winner) eighth in 2 13:07.

Johnson is a five-time Cy Young award winner, second only to Roger Clemens, who has seven such awards.