Example sentences of "player who " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not blame a brilliant young player who takes , say , the $200,000 he or she is offered , to play just for one night but it inevitably gives them a totally false impression of life and what their tennis priorities ought to be . |
| 2 | ‘ A good example of the sort of player who should be a great beneficiary of this scheme is James Lenton — a tremendously hard worker who has struggled financially and once even had to quit to resort to coaching , ’ Lewis added . |
| 3 | Many a player who had been highly thought of has disappeared from the tennis scene . |
| 4 | How can they compare themselves to a former professional player who has played in front of ten or twenty thousand people ? ’ |
| 5 | That 's a real professional , a player who plays all surfaces : grass , clay , hard courts . |
| 6 | Suppleness or flexibility is vital to the tennis player who needs the ability to move the various parts of his body through a full range of movements , often at full stretch . |
| 7 | Torquay United are expected to appoint Dave Smith manager today in succession to Cyril Knowles , the former Tottenham player who took the club from the verge of relegation to promotion play-offs in 1988 and the Sherpa Van Trophy final four months ago . |
| 8 | NORMAN YARDLEY was an extraordinarily gifted games player who rose to become captain of Yorkshire and England , later becoming a regular BBC commentator and chairman of selectors . |
| 9 | Injury-hit Albion — 12 players unavailable — hope to have winger Ford back and include Barham , the former Norwich and England player who is on trial at the Hawthorns , much-travelled reserve-team coach Allardyce , plus teenagers Foster and Whitehouse . |
| 10 | George Shipley , the former Charlton midfield player who was released by Gillingham at the end of last season , has officially retired at the age of 30 on medical advice , after a series of knee operations . |
| 11 | Paul Newlove , a Featherstone player who did gain a place in this week 's Test squad , scored the first try at the other end , following Barry Drummond 's kick . |
| 12 | Roberto Baggio , the new ‘ wonder boy ’ of Italian soccer , is not only an outrageously talented footballer , but he is also intelligent and responsible , a player who on his own initiative has made a series of public anti-violence appeals . |
| 13 | ‘ The board are extending a long-standing by-law which prevents a player who has rejected an international invitation from performing at club level during the summer period , ’ said Ashby . |
| 14 | ‘ The board are extending a long-standing by-law which prevents a player who has rejected an international invitation from performing at club level during the summer period , ’ said Ashby . |
| 15 | From next season an attacking player who is in line with the last defender when the ball is played up to him may no longer be offside . |
| 16 | There is a feeling that if the wording were changed to ‘ seeking to interfere with play ’ it would spare the player who is in an offside position but making a genuine attempt to stay onside by , for example , running back towards the halfway line . |
| 17 | Soutter , the fourth seed , thus beat the player who caused her exclusion from England 's world title-winning team , in a final that for the first time since 1979 contained neither of the Guernsey girls , Martine le Moignan and Lisa Opie . |
| 18 | Thus the fourth-seeded Soutter gained revenge over the player who denied her the last place in England 's world-title winning team this year , with a hint that her rehabilitation might now be complete . |
| 19 | However , the loose-head prop Mike Griffiths , another Lions and Wales player who has left Bridgend to join Cardiff , will play against Harlequins . |
| 20 | Finlay Calder , the Scottish player who led the Lions to victory in Australia , and is now in his final season at the age of 32 , receives the OBE. |
| 21 | I remember after the war in Bayreuth spending many hours with an old bass player who had worked under him . |
| 22 | Any player who wins a US Tour event should feel himself equally capable of winning the Masters , but first he has to lay the ghost of history , which pervades every hole on the course . |
| 23 | Kuhl is a very experienced player who can control the pace of the game from midfield and Anderton has so much natural talent that he could be a match winner . |
| 24 | ‘ In Byrne , Sunderland have a player who could supply that sort of brilliance and they have a great Cup tradition , too . |
| 25 | While Quins are in danger of attracting even more coconuts for continuing to select a player who plainly is no longer fully resident in England , Leicester have to pick themselves up after a cup defeat that , effectively , ended the hunt for any of the season 's trophies . |
| 26 | O'Shea , an oboe player who had also made albums for a west London record label , admitted the manslaughter of Miss Turner and was sent indefinitely to a secure mental hospital . |
| 27 | One player who will definitely not be playing at Wembley is United 's England Under-21 international , Mark Robins , who yesterday went into hospital for a cartilage operation . |
| 28 | SAMUEL RESHEVSKY , the Polish-born chess player who has died in New York aged 80 , was a celebrated child prodigy , though he never fulfilled his early promise . |
| 29 | This Loughborough student , a talented soccer player who declined an apprenticeship with Coventry City , amassed 17 points . |
| 30 | Since the player of the white pieces can achieve a small but comfortable advantage against this manoeuvre with very little difficulty , it was a bad choice against Karpov , a player who is past master at exploiting small advantages . |