Example sentences of "played for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Last night he played for a hand-picked team of personal friends against the national side after recent appearances to help out injury-hit Bayern Munich . |
| 32 | The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion . |
| 33 | ‘ I played for Emperor Frederick ’ , answered the shepherd . |
| 34 | He played for a while in a group called Meterzone who appeared mainly at student parties . |
| 35 | The man he had in mind was Clem Stephenson , the Aston Villa inside-forward who played for Leeds City during the war . |
| 36 | When the controversial striker Maurice Johnston played for Celtic , he once turned out in a summer match wearing a long-sleeved strip . |
| 37 | Patsy Gallacher was a ship-builder , who played for Celtic when they were a dominant force in Scottish football in the first decade of the century . |
| 38 | During his period at Newcastle and later in his career when he briefly played for Grimsby Town , Gallacher was known to drink with fans in pubs near the ground , and on more than one occasion a search party had to be sent to get him in time for the kick-off . |
| 39 | In an attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli crisis , the Highland Light Infantry sent Docherty to Palestine , where he played for the British Army XI . |
| 40 | The humiliated Pernia never played for Argentina again and the normally partisan crowd jeered at the referee for dismissing Johnson . |
| 41 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 42 | Jan Bartram , the Danish fullback who played for Rangers under Souness fell into disrepute at the club after a newspaper article led with the incriminating headline ‘ My Boss Is A Hooligan ’ . |
| 43 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |
| 44 | Jack was a native of Crook in County Durham and played for the local amateur side as a junior before signing for Newcastle at the age of 17 . |
| 45 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |
| 46 | He then went to South Africa with the FA summer touring side and played for the national team in one of the representative games . |
| 47 | In the 1912–13 season Harry was awarded Representative honours , when he played for the Southern League in all three inter-league fixtures against the Football League , the Scottish League and the League of Ireland . |
| 48 | Bill Davies was a Welsh International winger who played for The Palace in nearly 200 Southern League matches in two spells with the club from 1907 , until the 1st World War forced a conclusion to fully competitive football in 1915 . |
| 49 | After the latter match there was a flurry of interest in him from Football League clubs and Fred soon signed for Northampton , where he played for seven seasons before moving to Palace in February 1936 . |
| 50 | He played for his County boys ' team at the tender age of 11 years and by the time he was 13 he was reserve for the England Boys International team against Scotland . |
| 51 | After returning from India he joined Kingstonian and played for Surrey and three times for the Athenian League . |
| 52 | Inevitably , he came under the scrutiny of the bigger clubs and Spurs and Brentford made offers , but he eventually moved rather suddenly in October 1935 to Norwich City , when the Canaries paid their record fee to obtain his services , and he played for the Carrow Road club until the war . |
| 53 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 54 | Bob Spottiswood was a strong and pacy right half-back who played for his native Carlisle United before coming south to appear for Croydon Common for the 1908–09 season . |
| 55 | Alan Stephenson was a tall , stylish , slimly-built but strong centre-half , who played for the Palace with grace and power in the tough footballing days of the mid-1960s . |
| 56 | Tony 's successful partnership with Steve Kember was a key reason for our 1969 promotion to Division One , and for our subsequent continued presence there , but Tony also played for us in a variety of positions , from attacking winger on his debut , to left-back . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Edwin Stephenson , who played for Yorkshire between 1858 and 1873 , was one of the youngsters who spent many hours ‘ pegging ’ away , bowling at Sampson on the Broomhall pitch . |
| 59 | P.A. Whitcombe played for Winchester , Oxford University , Middlesex and the Gentlemen , and in 1948 he headed the University 's first-class bowling averages , taking 38 wickets at an average of 13.16 . |
| 60 | His first-class debut was for the Minor Counties against Oxford University in 1939 , but it was not until 1947 that he first played for Surrey , as an aggressive fast-medium bowler , who also liked to give the ball a good whack when batting . |