Example sentences of "[pron] played for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I played for a while , and then I stole up to look at her , because she was so still I thought she had fallen asleep , but her eyes were wide open , and there was colour , all rosy , high on her cheeks . |
| 2 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 3 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
| 4 | I affected to become social with the others but out of the corner of my mind — while I played for the others the part of a poor miner 's son who was puzzled , but delighted by the attention these lovely people paid to him — I had her under close observation … |
| 5 | ‘ It was the first time I played for the County . |
| 6 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 7 | I played for the |
| 8 | After all , the Lurgan outfit can boast the talents of Barry and Kevin O'Hagan as well as the mercurial skills of Diarmuid Marsden all of whom played for the Armagh Minor side last year . |
| 9 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 10 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
| 11 | Pitt , who played for the Valleys club in Australia , will make his Fulham debut at Whitehaven tomorrow . |
| 12 | So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match . |
| 13 | Statham , who played for the county from 1950 to 1968 , served on the committee for 21 years . |
| 14 | Bill Davies was a Welsh International winger who played for The Palace in nearly 200 Southern League matches in two spells with the club from 1907 , until the 1st World War forced a conclusion to fully competitive football in 1915 . |
| 15 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 16 | Alan Stephenson was a tall , stylish , slimly-built but strong centre-half , who played for the Palace with grace and power in the tough footballing days of the mid-1960s . |
| 17 | And a friend and neighbour of hers , who played for the local cricket team , was wantonly murdered by the poor , dreadful Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged in England . |
| 18 | SPAIN , who qualified at the expense of their fellow Iberians , Portugal ( withdrawn ) , are captained by winger Jaime Gutierrez and include several players from the senior squad ; while JAPAN feature , among a host of World Cup players , the electric winger Yoshihito Yoshida , of Meiji University , who played for the World XV in the Centenary series against New Zealand . |
| 19 | Paddy , 26 , who played for the Hare And Hounds , at Sway , said : ‘ It 's totally ridiculous . ’ |
| 20 | Aghredien , who played for SARU and is classified as coloured ( his father was Malayan and his mother Norwegian ) , has been working hand in hand with Bill Cunningham — a back-row forward , who played for the Springboks on their 1959 internal tour — to develop rugby in townships around Port Elizabeth for nearly two decades . |
| 21 | Ballymena will have the services of former London Irish flanker Gareth White , who played for the Irish Exiles last season , but is now home working in Coleraine . |
| 22 | The gift was signed by 92-year-old Mr Harry Moon of Earlston House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , who played for the 1923 Minor Counties side which took on the might of the West Indies . |
| 23 | We played for the British ambassador and some Irish teachers and workers who were out there . |
| 24 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 25 | Last night he played for a hand-picked team of personal friends against the national side after recent appearances to help out injury-hit Bayern Munich . |
| 26 | He played for a while in a group called Meterzone who appeared mainly at student parties . |
| 27 | In the RAF he played for a representative Welsh side with a famous senior International , Bleddyn Williams . |
| 28 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
| 29 | In an attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli crisis , the Highland Light Infantry sent Docherty to Palestine , where he played for the British Army XI . |
| 30 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |