Sentence examples for play on him from inspiring English sources

"I'd say the blokes who play on him will know a few tricks," Roughead said.

Robinson Cano received the throw in front of the base, a few feet from Hamilton, and might have had a play on him, but instead threw home, too late to nab Andrus.

Alex Rodriguez dived to his left to stop a grounder by Guerrero and, with hardly a play on him, popped to his knees and decided to throw to first, anyway.

When Chile's former dictator made thousands of political prisoners disappear into the night and fog of his dictatorship, leaving them without a burial, not even in his saddest nightmares could he have anticipated the joke that history was going to play on him: that many years later, those very crimes would lead Judge Guzmán to indict him for crimes against humanity.

Instead of making everything learned and clear, Brando let the lines play on him and rode his emotions wherever they led him.

And it didn't take long for the Blackhawks to make a "Hockey Play" on him.

For long periods, the rest of the band played on without him.

Tesco royalty past and present, including former chairmen Lord MacLaurin and Sir David Reid, played on without him.

I never had the pleasure to play one-on-one against him, not even beach soccer.

The spotlight played on him, and nothing else.

It is the great trick that the game played on him.