11.   And on the road, the Bulls played before a sellout crowd every night for four years straight.

12.   And there is still another quarter of a season to play before the polls close.

13.   And that year, I thought the team and the group played closer together than almost anytime they played before.

14.   And this, of course, is one of the great things about landing a mega-part, no matter how many people have played it before.

15.   As usual the Virginian, playing before numerous family members and friends, left opponents who were grasping at air and searching for suitable adjectives.

16.   Asking runners to skip the European meets, they said, would be akin to asking Steffi Graf not to play Wimbledon before the Olympic tennis competition begins.

17.   Ask him if he played before larger crowds in the minor leagues than the ones in Montreal.

18.   Before the Carolina series, the Bruins had not played before a capacity crowd for a playoff game in the FleetCenter.

19.   Bernie Anderson is one of four organists who play before movies at the Lafayette, which once was reduced to showing pornographic films.

20.   Both will play before a large gathering of family and friends, as will offensive tackle and Arlington Heights High School graduate Blake Brockermeyer.