Example sentences of "[pron] play for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | ‘ It was the first time I played for the County . |
| 4 | I play for the Stone Lodge Lane team a couple of nights a week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Also selected for the first time is batsman Mohsin Chohan , who plays for the Bangor club and has appeared for Caernarfonshire in the past . |
| 7 | They were two of five Winchester Club players in the nine-member Alton College squad , which also included five county players , and Cathy MacCormack who plays for the South of England under-18 team . |
| 8 | Former world snooker champion Terry Griffiths , who plays for the South Wales CA Division Five side Burry Port , is spearheading a campaign for a new sports stadium in the town . |
| 9 | Who plays for the football team you support ? |
| 10 | But the talented Keane , who plays for the Republic of Ireland against Spain in Seville tomorrow , will put the negotiations on ice while he weighs up his options . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Pitt , who played for the Valleys club in Australia , will make his Fulham debut at Whitehaven tomorrow . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Paddy , 26 , who played for the Hare And Hounds , at Sway , said : ‘ It 's totally ridiculous . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Statham , who played for the county from 1950 to 1968 , served on the committee for 21 years . |
| 20 | Welsh internationals Andrew Evans and Jonathon Waring , who play for the Birkenhead club , will be on hand to encourage the players and present the water polo awards . |
| 21 | ‘ I still have some very good friends who play for the club and although their record speaks for itself , it 's all to play for . ’ |
| 22 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 23 | Thanks also for opting for Portsmouth , I hope we never see him playing for the opposition in a ‘ real ’ match as it might spoil memories … bit like Shez and the Frog … |
| 24 | Billy was not a great goalscorer , but everyone who saw him play for the Palace is agreed that he helped to make hundreds of them for us . |
| 25 | An impressive feature of the early post-war Palace sides was the triumvirate of Alderson in goal , Little and Ernie Rhodes at full-back , and those who watched them play for the Palace will tell you of an understanding between them that bordered on the uncanny . |
| 26 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 27 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 28 | He plays for the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and is a certainty for Transvaal . |
| 29 | They all asked whether he played for the Beatles or the Stones , and were much amused to hear he had formed his own pop group with some of his fellow junior students . |
| 30 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |