Example sentences of "[be] playing [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you 're playing guitar for your own personal pleasure , which many of us do , then you want the guitar to talk to you — not to some non-existent person sitting fifteen feet away . |
| 2 | Despite the setbacks , Geoff has been playing golf for 16 years . |
| 3 | Lawrence , who has been playing golf for almost three years , has a handicap of 20 . |
| 4 | Steve 's been playing golf for 18 months now . |
| 5 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 6 | And yet , as er as Linda said women have been playing football for the last seventy , and before that , I mean op , throughout the century women have been playing football ! |
| 7 | He had been playing centre-half for Clapton , alongside Denis Hill-Wood , son of the then Arsenal chairman , when he got a telegram from Clapton 's secretary Harry Kordell . |
| 8 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 9 | This is just what we should expect if they are playing Tit for Tat . |
| 10 | DEREK LEE , who played fullback for Scottish Schools last season , has nailed his colours to the Glasgow even though he is playing standoff for Watsonians in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | Sir , — This correspondence ( ‘ Call for fresh air , not tea … answered by the taxman ’ , p 7 ) reminds me of an occasion some years ago when I was playing hockey for Ilford against Old Loughtonians . |
| 12 | Actually Jan was playing hockey for Buckley Ladies . |