Example sentences of "play [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | SPAIN , who qualified at the expense of their fellow Iberians , Portugal ( withdrawn ) , are captained by winger Jaime Gutierrez and include several players from the senior squad ; while JAPAN feature , among a host of World Cup players , the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 . |
| 2 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 3 | Paul Stephens says it was no more than New Zealand 's third string side with the best 30 on tour ( though Turner and Cooper played against the World XV and Seymour and Rush were picked to tour South Africa ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 5 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 6 | In 1980 , they both played in the World Junior Championship with gold going to Garry Kasparov and silver to Nigel Short . |
| 7 | OVER the 40 years I have talked to you at Christmas I have often spoken of the role Britain plays throughout the world . |
| 8 | THE world champion , Garry Kasparov , and the British challenger , Nigel Short , have forfeited their right to play for the world championship title , according to the official ruling body of chess , the International Chess Federation ( FIDE ) . |
| 9 | Parry has turned down an offer to play in the World Matchplay and with it , an automatic £12,500 reward , and has also decided to pull out of a couple of rich Japanese tournaments , so that he can play again next week in the BMW International . |
| 10 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 11 | The first is to take up Howe 's challenge , the other to play in the World Cup with the United States . |
| 12 | The public got a very early taste of it in the late 1970s when he was invited to play in the World International single wicket competition at The Oval . |
| 13 | South African fast bowler Meyrick Pringle , one of three players sharing that surname who are likely to play in the World Cup |
| 14 | To play in the World Cup is a wonderful honour . |
| 15 | It is feared he will concentrate on domestic policy , when Mr Major , who must overcome the embarrassment of backing Mr Bush , believes the US has a greater role than ever to play on the world stage . |
| 16 | The US Masters champion said : ‘ To be the best in the world you 've got to play around the world , but I do n't expect to see Americans playing over here . |
| 17 | Mozart 's music will be played throughout the world in 1991 in many bicentenary celebrations , but where better to listen to his operas , chamber music and piano concertos than in Vienna , a city that he described as ‘ the best place in the world for my metier ’ . |
| 18 | The first song The Wedding Present played to the world was ‘ Will You Be Up There ? ’ which they had earmarked as a potential single . |
| 19 | ‘ There are 11 players who can not wait to get this game started and as soon as those Scotland jerseys are pulled over our heads the dream of playing against the world champions will give way to proving individual worth , ’ said Robertson . |
| 20 | Imran Khan , Pakistan 's captain , has hinted a nagging shoulder injury might prevent him from playing throughout the World Cup winners ' tour of England this summer . |
| 21 | The decade saw the emergence of three European women professionals capable of playing with the world 's best and , better yet , two of them proving it . |
| 22 | Home to gridiron team Orlando Thunder , who play in the World League , it is not on a par with the Joe Robbie stadium in Miami — their bid failed because of the clash with the baseball season — but it is huge and comfortable . |
| 23 | He is expected to play again in January , specialists having approved his return to training , but is unwilling to turn out too soon , as he did against Steaua after surgery , for fear of jeopardising his chances of playing in the World Cup . |
| 24 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 25 | ‘ They will want to be playing in the World Cup — yet I 've seen Steve Nicol decide he does n't want to play for Scotland anymore . |
| 26 | David Lawrence is putting his feet up … after the trials of test cricket in New Zealand … and after the shattering knee injury that dashed his hopes of playing in the World Cup . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've done everything for Liverpool , and playing in the World Cup finals is probably the only big ambition I 've got left . |
| 28 | Only band I want to see playing in the world . |
| 29 | ( ‘ We have done our work , let the children play in the world which our work had made safer and happier for them ’ , as Tovey puts it . ) |
| 30 | The only way to see if he was world class was to play him against world class opposition … how many times did he play in the World cup ? ? |