Example sentences of "play for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in his latest film , the hilarious Housesitter which opened in Britain last Friday , it is the bubbly Goldie Hawn , his co-star , who plays for laughs rather than Steve . |
| 2 | One er , who plays for Hull ? |
| 3 | He plays for Rovers now . |
| 4 | But in fairness to Bunce , who plays for Auckland , he has long been resident in New Zealand and had no thoughts of international rugby until approached by Western Samoa , whose 26-strong World Cup squad included only one player still living in the country . |
| 5 | There is a danger in reading the classics , in that they can come to be regarded simply as literature — so always try to look at them as plays for performance — and , it goes without saying , try to see as much theatre as you can . |
| 6 | The 21-year-old who bats number three and bowls medium pace plays for Llandudno and Caernarfonshire want him to strengthen their line-up for tomorrow 's North Wales County Championship derby clash with Anglesey at Bethesda . |
| 7 | Nowadays , he says , he just plays for fun . |
| 8 | That Barlow ( Stuart ? ) who plays for Everton — he ca nt half miss good chances . |
| 9 | Sidney Deane ( Snipes ) , a black street basketball player in Los Angeles , plays for money . |
| 10 | England international Dixon has been ridiculed by the chant , ‘ if Lee Dixon plays for England , so can I ’ , but has so far refused to talk about it . |
| 11 | She will know , furthermore , of the furore brewing in every pub and office in the land , ever since Allan Lamb , who plays for England , bravely explained to my colleagues what Wasim and Whacker — sorry , Waqar — have been getting up to . |
| 12 | But the 24-year-old midfielder , who plays for England against the USA tonight , insists he wants to stay at Elland Road . |
| 13 | well the thing is I mean he plays for England under twenty ones |
| 14 | He currently plays for Tottenham Hotspur ‘ FC ’ where he proceeded to embark upon an intimate friendship with the nutritionally-disordered Ms Mandy Smith . |
| 15 | WHEN Darren O'Leary plays for London against the North in the final round of the ADT Divisional Championship today he will be forgiven if he is caught day-dreaming of England training in sunny Lanzarote . |
| 16 | Abundant evidence suggests that the landlord is a rugby buff his son plays for Waterloo and he also keeps 60 or 70 malt whiskies , on a shelf with the sub-title ‘ Medicine for men . ’ |
| 17 | The former Welsh international , who now plays for Wrexham , was caught in a clinch with 29-year-old Erica Dean , the wife of his former brother-in-law Geoffrey Dean . |
| 18 | McPherson plays for Hearts against Dundee at Tynecastle in the only match in the Premier Division . |
| 19 | McPherson plays for Hearts against Dundee at Tynecastle in the only match in the Premier Division . |
| 20 | Nearer home , he is a stalwart of the chess club at his present school , Yarm School junior department , and he plays for Stokesley in the senior division of the chess league . |
| 21 | ( Steve Ford , who will mark Kirwan , is part of a family double ; brother Phil plays for Leeds against the NZ rugby league tourists tomorrow . ) |
| 22 | Bluebeard 's wife , about to be killed by her ferocious husband for disobeying his instructions , desperately plays for time as she knows her brothers are on their way to visit her . |
| 23 | On the topic of resources , it 's interesting that a player like Harry Roberts , who made Scotland ‘ B ’ and played with distinction for a number of top clubs , plays for Transvaal but would be fighting against top opposition for a third or fourth place in the hooker rankings in South Africa . |
| 24 | The disciplinary commission of the Italian League will consider disciplinary action against the Argentinian , who plays for Napoli . |
| 25 | Schumacher , the former West German international who plays for Fenerbahce , and Pfaff who gives a Belgian flavour to Trabzonspor , have fallen foul of a Turkish federation ban on imported players . |
| 26 | Hagi plays for Steaua Bucharest , the army club who have recently won a sponsorship from Ford . |
| 27 | Debbie Stock plays for Letcombe alongside the men . |
| 28 | RAF Odiham , marshalled by their stand-off who usually plays for Basingstoke , looked dangerous when their backs made a break , but good tackling and covering kept them out . |
| 29 | Before losing out to Northampton who were bullies , I was at that match at Buckingham Road and I thought they were bullies , especially Bobby Barnes , not the wrestler , used to play for West Ham , but he plays for Northampton now , he 's gone now , but they were , they , they were naughty . |
| 30 | She was a well-known author in her day , writing fiction , biographies , translations , and even plays for children . |