Example sentences of "[pron] played for " in BNC.
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| 1 | often I played for hours |
| 2 | ‘ I played for Emperor Frederick ’ , answered the shepherd . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I played for my junior school in Barnsley then progressed through the various Yorkshire representative teams . |
| 5 | And the conspiracy continued ‘ until I played for England Schools and rang my father in dread to tell him . |
| 6 | I PLAYED for Rangers when they last met Leeds in the quarter-final of the old Fairs Cup back in 1968 . |
| 7 | ‘ When I played for Transvaal I found my role very different to that employed for either club or country . |
| 8 | I played for Kendall at Blackburn Rovers and admired what he did there . |
| 9 | I played for and captained my country so I know how important it is and I would never stop anybody going . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | I played for high stakes — and I have lost . |
| 12 | I played for a while , and then I stole up to look at her , because she was so still I thought she had fallen asleep , but her eyes were wide open , and there was colour , all rosy , high on her cheeks . |
| 13 | ‘ It was the first time I played for the County . |
| 14 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 15 | ‘ When I played for Bangor we loved putting one over on Linfield or Glentoran — and nothing seems to have changed . |
| 16 | ‘ I was too thin when I played for Derry . |
| 17 | ‘ I played for England , Scotland , Ireland and Wales . ’ |
| 18 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 19 | ‘ It was the old Linfield spirit that carried them through because it was n't a great Linfield team , compared to the sides Trevor and I played for in the 80s . |
| 20 | ‘ I played for their club when I was touring in Germany , and they volunteered to come over and help us whenever they could . |
| 21 | I played for Middlesbrough Over-35s and did a bit of radio work , ’ he said . |
| 22 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 23 | But the managers I played for said I was the best professional . |
| 24 | ‘ I played for Scotland Under-21 against them in the European Championship quarter-final tie last season , when we were two goals behind on aggregate and then scored three times in the final 20 minutes to win . |
| 25 | I played for the |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She played for her native Czechoslovakia in 3–0 defeat of Austria in 1975 , and then played for the United States in 1982 and 1986 . |
| 28 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 29 | She brought her haul of county match appearances up to 99 , while the number of times she played for her club — she was playing for Ganton up until a few months before her death — must have constituted a record . |
| 30 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |