Example sentences of "[verb] be playing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One disappointing absentee is Jonathan Davies , who has been playing with such verve at full-back recently but has not recovered from his damaged hamstring , allowing Alan Tait to revert to full-back . |
| 2 | Goodway has been playing with consistent brilliance there this season , scoring 18 tries , but he will now be out for a month , and Hanley is no stranger to the position after spending earlier periods of his career mostly at centre or stand-off . |
| 3 | MICHAEL LYNAGH , who has been playing with increasing success for Italian club Treviso under the hand of magician Pierre Villepreux , has been offered a job with the PR department of Benetton , the club sponsors . |
| 4 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 5 | However Sun has been playing with the long overdue part for many months now , working closely with Texas Instruments Inc to get the thing up to scratch . |
| 6 | Collections Curator Lisa Dennison has been playing with possibilities but told The Art Newspaper that she would be placing Brancusi with Robert Ryman and that the exhibition would include Kandinsky . |
| 7 | It 's like a little girl has been playing with her mother 's scissors , and she sat in front of the mirror wondering what her mother 's going to say , and whether if she snips a little more it 'll be OK . |
| 8 | There is the formidable barrier too in goalkeeper Valdemaras Martinkenas , a 28-year-old who has been playing with Dinamo Kievf and three others with Austrian clubs are defenders Arvydas Janonis ( St Polten ) , Romas Mazheikas ( FC Krems ) and striker Stasys Baranavskas ( FC Vienna ) . |
| 9 | He has been playing with it . |
| 10 | Cecil resigned from the Cabinet and ever since has been playing to full houses when he addresses the Tory faithful . |
| 11 | Apart from performing the worst of all US football teams in 1990 , the team has amassed losses of $20m since Kiam took over and has been playing to 70 per cent capacity despite some improvement this season . |
| 12 | and we ’ ll be previewing the grand prix season in four weeks time … now next week the Oxford playhouse stages one of the sporting mismatches of the year … and cast in the unlikely role of trainer or coach is Alan Ayckbourn who after Shakespeare is the most performed playwrite of all time … the name of the game is a production about rowing called One Over the Eight which has been playing to packed houses in Scarborough |
| 13 | Though Alan Watt is back training , he is not included in GH-K 's 24-strong squad , which includes a French No8 , Franck Gruel , who has been playing for the 2nds . |
| 14 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 15 | ‘ He has been playing on the right side and doing very well , ’ said Bingham who has always been a Black admirer . |
| 16 | He has been playing in the local Welsh leagues , has represented West Indies ‘ B ’ and is being keenly monitored by the county . |
| 17 | Oxfordshiree champion Tim henman has been playing in the quarter finals of the Challenger Trophy against his doubles partner Chris Bailey … |
| 18 | Oxfordshiree champion Tim henman has been playing in the quarter finals of the Challenger Trophy against his doubles partner Chris Bailey … |
| 19 | ‘ Ellison has been playing in a central midfield role for the youth team . |
| 20 | People who dangle wires or ropes on to power lines to see what happens are playing with fire . ’ |
| 21 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |
| 22 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 23 | Their reunion with the twins — who 'd been playing on the beach with the Meadowes 's little girl , Kerry-Jane — was an almost heartbreaking occasion . |
| 24 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 25 | I had never had been playing with other children . |
| 26 | Its owner is upset by what 's happened , but feels Mark should n't have been playing with the dog in the first place . |
| 27 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 28 | It must have been playing on her mind . |
| 29 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 30 | Jessamy suddenly grew tired of the silly games that everyone seemed to have been playing with her lately . |