Example sentences of "had play for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 2 | A fortnight ago he had played for England against America in the annual International . |
| 3 | When the dust finally settled on the day 's play , the Stoddard Captain , showing no reluctance to collect the Buchanan Cup on behalf of Stoddards , even although he had played for Lyles , took the opportunity to thank both Eddie Docherty and Ian McCulloch of Lyles for the splendid organisation of the event . |
| 4 | Montague Toller , a regular with Devon who had played for Somerset in 1897 , took 7 for 10 , and the other four wickets were taken by Bowlesland at a cost of 15 . |
| 5 | Stan had played for Exeter against us in the previous three seasons ' fixtures and had invariably acquitted himself well in those matches , so Palace fans knew that Mr Maven 's transfer fee was well spent . |
| 6 | His father Arthur , who had played for Blackburn Rovers , Derby County and Portsmouth , worked there at the time . |
| 7 | Before playing for Northants the cheerful James had played for Wellington in New Zealand . |
| 8 | The son of a Scottish blacksmith who had moved south from Aberdeen , Buchan had played for Arsenal as an amateur in the Woolwich days , until he presented an expenses bill for 11 s , and was suspended for extravagance . |
| 9 | In 1936 , at a time when she had played for Yorkshire on 62 occasions , Mary married John Toogood , a Yorkshire businessman . |
| 10 | It was a happy debut for the latest model to drop off the fast-bowling conveyor belt ; Patrick Patterson had played for Lancashire the previous summer without making much impression , but now on his home patch with the sun on his back he hit Test cricket with a bang . |
| 11 | The latter had been widowed very early in life — her husband Ernest , a member of a footballing family had played for Salisbury City , then Southampton as a professional goalkeeper . |