Example sentences of "played for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Coventry City .. 3 Grimsby Town ... 0 ( Coventry win 4-3 on agg ) GRIMSBY played for 87 minutes of this Littlewoods Cup tie with 10 men , and their prospects of defending the two-goal lead they brought to Highfield Road disappeared with Tony Rees , who was sent off for a coward 's foul on Greg Downs .
3 Pitt , who played for the Valleys club in Australia , will make his Fulham debut at Whitehaven tomorrow .
4 ‘ This played for at least 10 minutes and finished and the phone went dead .
5 Val Robinson , who first played for England back in 1966 , was named player of the match in Great Harwood 's 1-1 draw at Orpington .
6 He played for Bradford Park Avenue against Millwall in the Second Division 60 years ago at the age of 15 years , 158 days .
7 Hobbs , who last played for Great Britain in France in 1987 , returns to international favour on the strength of the maturity he has displayed since taking over the captaincy at Bradford this season .
8 I always play for my country when I have a chance , ’ Ballesteros , who last played for Spain in the World Cup in 1977 , added .
9 Howard Clark , who played for Europe in the recent defence of the Ryder Cup , the Australian Peter Fowler , Sweden 's Ove Sellberg and the American , Gary Koch , shared third place on 66 .
10 Patsy 's brother Dennis also played for the club and did not appreciate the secretary 's habitual greeting : ‘ with me bleedin ’ ribs pokin ’ out of me skin , breakin ’ me neck to get at that six and eight ’ ( the initial sum dispensed by the Secretary ) , Dennis Hendren had not wintered well ’ and did not believe Middlesex looked after its players out of season .
11 Dwight York , who played for Trinidad and Tobago in Sunday 's World Cup defeat by the United States , has agreed to sign a three-year contract with Villa , where he is due to arrive on December 13 .
12 Brian O'Donnell played for Bournemouth and Torquay .
13 Brian O'Donnell played for Bournemouth and Torquay .
14 Dave Whelan , 53 , who played for Blackburn Rovers and broke a leg in the 1960 FA Cup final , has offered £100,000 to any youngster born within 10 miles of Wigan parish church who wins the junior Wimbledon title in the next 10 years .
15 Dave Whelan , 53 , who played for Blackburn Rovers and broke a leg in the 1960 FA Cup final , has offred £100,000 to any youngster born within 10 miles of Wigan parish church who wins the junior Wimbledon title in the next 10 years .
16 Cagliari — population 225,000 , stadium capacity 38,800 — is a city with its own strong soccer culture , and its own football hero , Luigi Riva ( pictured below , and , left , as celebrated by a lifesize statue in a local bar ) , who played for Cagliari as a left-winger when they won their one Italian league title in 1970 and was a prodigious scorer .
17 He made his first-class debut for his county last season and played for Young England .
18 A 5ft 9in point guard out of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa , Johnson played for the Lancaster Lightnings in the Continental Basketball Association before moving to this country to join Newcastle .
19 So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match .
20 He played for Glamorgan in 1971 and 1972 ( and briefly the following year before joining the touring party ) , scoring a thousand runs in both seasons and , with Alan Jones , putting on a county record opening stand of 330 against Northamptonshire in 1972 .
21 He played for Hampshire from 1973 to 1978 , had a season with New South Wales , and appeared for Leicestershire between 1981 and 1984 .
22 often I played for hours
23 He played for time .
24 Truman played for time by appointing a brains trust of three to advise him .
25 We played for the British ambassador and some Irish teachers and workers who were out there .
26 ‘ It 's here somewhere , ’ Rose played for time and lost .
27 In contrast , Sunderland have a rich seam of experienced players , among them Paul Bracewell , who played for Everton in the 1989 semi-final .
28 He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner .
29 He played for Surrey second XI at 20 and made his debut for the first XI in 1947 , when he played five matches .
30 Statham , who played for the county from 1950 to 1968 , served on the committee for 21 years .
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