Example sentences of "[coord] play [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , not many business executives or lawyers write satirical novels or plays about their own profession . |
| 2 | Without adducing any real evidence ( he refers sometimes to the dialogue given to women characters in novels or plays by men ) , Jespersen tells us women speak more softly and politely than men , have smaller and less varied vocabularies , use diminutives like teeny weeny , construct their sentences ‘ loosely , and leave them unfinished , all the while jumping from topic to topic . |
| 3 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 4 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 5 | Use quiet music on a tape or played by the organ or music group . |
| 6 | There is also value in having it sung or played in advance , perhaps on several occasions , by the choir , music group or organist . |
| 7 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |
| 8 | Moreover , he finds it a nuisance to have her in his flat all day , when he wants to do piano practice , or to play at conducting an orchestra . |
| 9 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 10 | ‘ This is the best England team I have ever seen or played against . |
| 11 | Going to work for a young musician may mean days spent rehearsing — getting songs down on tape , producing a demo on a front-room recording unit , or playing at a pub gig . |
| 12 | For many people , singing or playing at services is perhaps their only link with the Church , and it may well prove to be a temporary one . |
| 13 | It 's cramped if there are four of you , but the atmosphere is very friendly and relaxed — neighbours popping in to borrow a cup of sugar or a 50p coin for the electricity meter , children running along the balconies or playing on the thin strip of grass between the blocks . |
| 14 | There is an outer half-circle of the twenty-four old men from the Book of the Revelation , holding long-necked jars of perfume or playing on early musical instruments : this is Heaven . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) In this Part , ‘ recording ’ means any record from which visual images or sounds may , by any means , be reproduced ; and references to the distribution , showing or playing of a recording are to its distribution , showing or playing to the public or a section of the public . ’ |
| 16 | ( 2 ) In this Part , ‘ recording ’ means any record from which visual images or sounds may , by any means , be reproduced ; and references to the distribution , showing or playing of a recording are to its distribution , showing or playing to the public or a section of the public . ’ |
| 17 | There is a defence that the distributor , displayer or player who had no intention to stir up racial hatred was ignorant of , and had no reason to suspect that the contents of the item in question were threatening , abusive or insulting , and the section does not apply where the showing or playing of the recording is solely for the purpose of inclusion in a cable programme service . |
| 18 | Today , kids are watching TV , listening to headphones or playing with computers . |
| 19 | The most common example of correction-praise going wrong is where a dog runs off and refuses to come back , either rabbiting or playing with other dogs . |
| 20 | The sensible parent must weigh up all considerations , as if in credit and debit columns on a ‘ balance sheet ’ , when deciding whether or not to prohibit watching television thrillers or playing with guns . |
| 21 | Or playing with it oneself . |
| 22 | This may require the parents being given some special activities to be carried out each day , or it may involve more general and less highly structured activities , such as looking at books or playing with toys . |
| 23 | Most 2-year-olds have a short concentration span and will flit between activities like Playdoh , Lego , or playing with cars and dolls while a 5-year-old can settle to play table games and puzzles . |
| 24 | Children are usually stopped by parents from playing with their faeces , and they become interested instead in mud pies , or in building sandcastles or playing with clay and plasticine . |
| 25 | That 's for things like looking after babies who 've been left alone too long , or playing with little kids who get lonely . |
| 26 | He was happiest in old clothes , with a pipe in his mouth and his much-loved wife at his side , gardening , tending trees , reading , or playing with his model railway , at Briglands , the house at Rumbling Bridge designed for his father by Sir Robert Lorimer [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | If you want cold hard-boiled eggs for eating or playing with , use either natural dyes or edible food colourings . |
| 28 | Everyone else in her class would be spending the holidays riding or playing in the hills or lying in bed until midday . |
| 29 | While Hank was , in his grandparents ’ opinion , too small to be left alone , the two grandmothers had insisted that he accompany his mother , and he had enjoyed wandering round the Palichuk pig farm with his grandfather or playing in a corner of the lounge of his Grandmother Stych 's more fashionable home . |
| 30 | It is necessary , therefore , to make as attractive as possible the opportunities and challenge of singing or playing in church . |