Example sentences of "and play the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's an old story , it 's in Grimm , the hedgehog sits on a black cock in a high tree and plays the bagpipes and tricks people . |
| 2 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 3 | Normally a mouth organ or a piano accordion accompanies the music and plays the melody . |
| 4 | He runs a church choir and plays the organ . |
| 5 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 6 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 7 | She reached for her notebook and cigarettes and played the words around , wielded their texture and richness to sculpt a poem to her joy . |
| 8 | Yet Binyon knew the unformulated rules of the society that he moved in , and played the game consistently as the amateur that that society required him to be . |
| 9 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 10 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 11 | Finally he took the bass part of some airs of Handel … and played the most beautiful melody on it and in such a manner that everyone was amazed . |
| 12 | On the following day the little Englishman … had his violin brought to our rooms and played the whole afternoon , Wolfgang accompanying on his own . |
| 13 | We qualified easily , of course , and played the first two rounds with Dave Thomas . |
| 14 | He got excited and depressed , dodged the army , fell in and out of love , occasionally suffered ill-health and played the violin . |
| 15 | Kelly understood this and played the game as well as anyone . |
| 16 | That year they scooped every award in sight and played the most prestigious festivals , and the world at large began to recognise the Cray Band sound : no histrionics or wailing feedback , just tight soul grooves linked with Robert 's excellent vocals , his distinctive guitar style and his thin , poppy trademark Stratocaster tone . |
| 17 | I never sat down and played the same thing twice . |
| 18 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 19 | So I let them think it and played the game . ’ |
| 20 | Then he came out and played the whole set again , miraculously cured , singing brilliantly . |
| 21 | NASA named its first shuttle Enterprise , and played the theme to Star Trek at its unveiling . |
| 22 | Then a young man named Paul Arkwright came to the house with his mentor , and played the piano , and Dinah sang . |
| 23 | She too held her head high as they announced the fight and played the national anthems . |
| 24 | She too had a good soprano voice , and played the piano reasonably well . |
| 25 | Ms Thomas took to the piano and played the National Anthem , which is how the meeting is traditionally rounded off . |
| 26 | I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas . |
| 27 | He was at ringside to watch Lennox batter Mike Dixon in a warm-up win and played the gentleman by saying : ‘ I do n't need to tell Lennox what I 'm going to do . ’ |
| 28 | On the other hand , Ferrasse , a shrewd politician and operator , sensed the prevailing mood in France and played the conspiracy card . |
| 29 | But thankfully , she was very supportive throughout and played the role of my psychoanalyst by helping me open up . |
| 30 | Francie , day and night , locked himself in the room he shared with Finn ( it was , Melanie discovered , the room next to her own ) and played the fiddle continually , except when he was engaged to play it outside , at London Irish clubs , ceilidhs and gatherings . |