Example sentences of "[noun prp] be playing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten-year-old Stephen was playing for St Augustine 's Junior School in the schools ' penalty competition run by Darlington Football Club . |
| 2 | By the '70s , when Freddie Martin was playing for a whisky company 's office team in Perth , his successors between the sticks were being subjected to intense TV scrutiny . |
| 3 | Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening . |
| 4 | Most of the time Harry was playing for Crystal Palace we were a Third Division club and so it is not surprising that most of the great achievements to which he helped to take us were in the FA Cup . |
| 5 | So there you go , you can have the video John Virgo 's Playing For Laughs . |
| 6 | He became a huge favourite with pre-war fans , who loved his fiercely determined performances , and it was while Bob was playing for us that we came closest to clinching the Southern League championship , being denied on goal average alone by Swindon Town in 1913–14 . |
| 7 | The fact that Courier was playing for the trophy was a result of Saturday 's magnificent doubles victory by Sampras and McEnroe , whose emotional , fist-pumping speech inspired a remarkable comeback . |
| 8 | Neither , to his disappointment , did the blunt and usually outspoken Eleanor who had guessed , correctly , that Freddie was playing for time , hoping for news of his old flame . |
| 9 | Stevens was playing for Spurs when he became a victim of a Vinnie Jones tackle which eventually ended his career . |
| 10 | Stevens was playing for Spurs when he became a victim of a Vinnie Jones tackle which eventually ended his career and he said : ‘ If players are dragging matters through the courts it ca n't be good publicity for the game . |
| 11 | David Markey , Bryn Cunningham and Steven Watters were playing for Ulster at U-14 level last season while Andrew Curran and Mark Magrath are only marginally older . |
| 12 | Connolly is playing for Canterbury-Bankstown in Australia 's Winfield Cup and refused to commit himself to a new contract before going Down Under . |
| 13 | Newton was playing for ADS Graphics in a Wirral Sunday League Division One match when the offence allegedly took place . |
| 14 | ‘ Harry Bell were playing for Durham and an oldish chap called Watson , who I kept hitting back over his head . ’ |