Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bought four ponies , all of which Alejandro swore played in the final of last year 's Open . |
| 2 | Security guard Fred had played for the Scholes club near Rotherham , South Yorks , since he was only 12 . |
| 3 | She was never told by the London office or by Mary herself of the important part that Miss Read had played in the Tiller story . |
| 4 | Bradman and the umpire disagreed and Cec came to play in the Central Lancashire League where he became a legend for his fiery bowling , lusty hitting and astonishing turns of phrase . |
| 5 | Sandy had to play in the PGA Benevolent Society pro-am the next day at Sunningdale . |
| 6 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 7 | The SARFU wanted to play the test at Johannesburg 's Ellis Park , the biggest ground in the country , where gate receipts would be huge , while the ARFU wanted to play at the low altitude venues of either Durban 's King 's Park or Cape Town 's Newlands Stadium . |
| 8 | Kandinskaya stopped playing by the rules . |
| 9 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 10 | Unwin had played in the South Bank team that had won the West Riding junior Cup in 1912 and the Amateur Cup the next year . |
| 11 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 12 | Lynagh elected to play for the try and history now records his match-winning touchdown in the corner when brilliantly scooping up David Campese 's desperate in-field pass . |
| 13 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 14 | Jock decided to play as the congregation assembled and before the proper organist arrived , but his hesitant , hymnal efforts had a spare , Protestant ring about them and when , in despair , he broke into a decidedly rag-time syncopation with ‘ Wait Till the Sun Shines , Nelly ’ the proper organist , who was a very proper spinster-woman , rose and hurriedly pushed him off the stool before he had got through the chorus . |