Sentence examples for for missing a match from inspiring English sources

He was called "pathetic" for missing a match due to illness.

KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "I was just reading about how Belgian striker Gilles de Bilde has got himself in trouble with his current team, Willebroek, for missing a match to mourn his dog's death," wrote Charles Bland in 2006.

Football Focus presenter Dan Walker found a fines list which certainly belongs at Blyth rather than St Andrews, with home players threatened with a £10 punishment for missing a night out but only £5 for missing a match.

The first minister was only missing a matching bunnet for a full house in 1970s US Tourist Visiting Loch Ness bingo.

Bill Purves and Billy Ollis were ever-present, Ollis for the third season running, and Fred Wheldon missed a match for the first time in five years.

"I never want to miss a match for Australia but I'll be doing everything I possibly can to get back as quickly as possible".

Thereafter he didn't miss a match for the next eight months as Matt Busby's men were crowned as champions for the first time since the Munich air disaster of 1958 and reached the semi-finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.

Keep your match tickets on your person as your insurer will probably pay out their value if they go astray – but that won't make up for missing the match.

*Type 0 matches linear predictors for observed and missing values; type 1 uses a draw of parameters for missing values before matching; type 2 uses a draw of parameters for both observed and missing.

Poor region matching was a less important, but still significant, reason for missing matches among RAC leave events.

The hosts seemed to be missing Richardson, whose torn muscle in his right armpit forced him to miss a Championship match for the first time since 2010.