Sentence examples for a phase of play from inspiring English sources

From Jean Beausejour's corner, Ivan Ramis evaded Winston Reid and thundered a volley beyond Jussi Jaaskelainen in a phase of play that highlighted the problems of disorganised man-marking against attackers who possess a greater willingness to meet the ball first.

I've never really been a gamer because I know I'd get addicted, but I did go through a phase of playing Civilisation as a student.

His mother went through a phase of repeatedly playing Cat Stevens's "Morning Has Broken".

A shaky phase of play for the hosts, but they get away with a couple of minor shockers.

After a stodgy phase of play Mourinho made his move and on came Rooney and Martial.

Yesterday there was a master class at the line-out from Victor Matfield which denied England ball from a fundamental phase of play.

The goalkeeper rightly tried to avoid handling the ball from the deliberate back pass – he only intervened with his hand in a second phase of play, after the ball had rebounded off the post.

The Dons had to survive a difficult opening phase of play and pacy winger Tomasov could have scored twice in the first 10 minutes.

"All three I don't think Exeter had to play through any phases of play at all, so once you give a team as good as Exeter in these conditions that much of a lead it's a long way back - but I actually thought we played some good rugby.

Nowadays, ambitious up-and-coming players feel they must master all phases of play.

His replacement, Jesse Mogg, made one dazzling run that ended when he knocked on after being tackled by Geoff Parling, but the Wallabies struggled to put any phases of play together.