Example sentences of "had play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the sake of , for the sake of a few bands that we do , I mean most of the bands on the local level are used to playing in pubs so they just had to play on the floor anyway and the rest of it |
| 2 | Sandy had to play in the PGA Benevolent Society pro-am the next day at Sunningdale . |
| 3 | His misery made him slow-witted and careless and he was ashamed of the part he had played at the warren . |
| 4 | I said , like the child who had played with the dolls and bears , ‘ Syl would bring me breakfast in bed , only his mother would n't let him . ’ |
| 5 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 6 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 7 | Now the farmer and his wife had remained in the filed , laughing over the trick they had played on the tiger . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Martin netted a peach of a goal within 17 minutes of his debut at Walsall on January 2 , but he only managed one more goal in the following seven appearances and failed to live up to his Hammers pedigree — he had played for the West ham first team on three occasions . |
| 10 | Security guard Fred had played for the Scholes club near Rotherham , South Yorks , since he was only 12 . |
| 11 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |
| 12 | By the way Batty was merely a promising youngster when Wilko arrived , and I do n't think Speed had played for the first team . |
| 13 | Linfield 's board , alarmed by the adverse publicity , released an unprecedented statement outlining their position and policy , and revealing that over 70 Catholics had played for the club in the past . |
| 14 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The news agency Interfax reported on July 5 that at a joint meeting the two opposition movements , Birlik and Erk , had decided on joint action , acknowledging that the differences in approach between them since Erk 's split from Birlik in late 1989 had played into the hands of the government . |
| 17 | His protest that this was the worst kind of Victorian colonialism was short-hand for the conviction that the action had played into the hands of all the enemies of the West . |
| 18 | To many his shrewdest move was to die , of brain cancer and pneumonia , in May 1987 , before he had been called on to give an account of the role he had played in the affair . |
| 19 | The exhibition , which celebrated the event and outlined the role which each department of the company had played in the task , was on the last leg of its 5,000-mile tour of Arjo companies in Britain and Europe . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Many other men and organisations had reason to be proud of the parts they had played in the drama . |
| 23 | They had played in the mound of and for over an hour . |
| 24 | Last year he had played in the pro-am with the Open Champion and Terry Wogan , and they should have won it , and next week he was playing in California with Trevino . |
| 25 | His fiercest wrath was reserved for William of Wykeham , because of the part he had played in the impeachment of Latimer , and for Peter de la Mare . |
| 26 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 27 | When I won an essay competition in 1957 on " Why I was proud to be a citizen of Leeds " , organised by the Variety Club of Great Britain and the local evening paper , the big event in my London visit was not Buckingham Palace , nor having Norman Wisdom put his arm round me , but gazing at a skiffle group which had played in the 21's coffee bar with Tommy Steele . |
| 28 | Einstein objected to this very strongly , despite the important role he had played in the development of these ideas . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If he had played in the match he would have been the least accurate driver , the player missing the most greens in regulation and the worst bunker player on the team . |