Example sentences of "be playing the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're playing the hated enemy Sunderland ( they 've fluked their way to the final ) . |
| 2 | It 's OK if you 're playing the same lines over and over again to thicken up the sound but if you 're playing different lines within the song as overdubs I often use different guitars to achieve different effects . ’ |
| 3 | You know it , and he thinks you 're playing the same one . |
| 4 | Well you 've both got to do the same if you 're playing the same game Jonathan . |
| 5 | But it 's quite weird ; one minute you 're playing the old Doors ’ thing Roadhouse Blues , with that single note bass line duh-d-duh-d-duh-d-duhduhduh , and next you 're swinging it through Marguerita Time ! ’ |
| 6 | Gillian Smith ( 10 ) and Denise Farrelly ( 13 ) will be playing the coveted part of little orphan Annie in the Arts Musical Youth 's new production which opens on Tuesday . |
| 7 | Town are still second in the first division , but are reckoned to be playing the best football . |
| 8 | Joan Collins and Keith Baxter will be playing the leading roles in the play . |
| 9 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm playing the evil Red Queen in a play about Snow White over the Christmas Season . |
| 11 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 12 | The Continental Palace orchestra had been playing the new popular melody " Tea for Two " as he came out onto the terrace , and he had been faintly surprised in the event that nobody had turned to stare at him . |
| 13 | The other is Sir Colin Cowdrey who , as president of the International Cricket Council , has been playing the deadest of bats lately . |
| 14 | I 've been playing the Modern Jazz Quartet 's records over and over again . |
| 15 | From greeting her with a kiss at breakfast , throughout the morning , and up to ten minutes ago when , at the lunch table , he had covered her hand with his , gazed into her eyes and called her meu amor , he had been playing the adoring fiancé to perfection . |
| 16 | If you ask me , some of you odds-and-sods have been playing the old soldier . |
| 17 | For some years now Fiji have been playing the sevens tournaments of the world and have been winning them all . |
| 18 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 19 | The teacher has been playing the Pied Piper , the children a group from Hamelin negotiating for the release of the children — " How would you describe the way the Pied Piper spoke to you ? |
| 20 | He must have been playing the beastly thing for years . |
| 21 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 22 | However , it seems to me that the chief problem is that the guys are playing the new laws with the old mentality . |
| 23 | It said : ‘ I 'm so sorry to send a hired car but the first eleven foremen are playing the first eleven chauffeurs and there 's no-one else to drive you ’ . ’ |
| 24 | It could be that you are playing the critical parent . |
| 25 | The tough lads are playing the electronic games , kung fu kicking their way through a horde of little screen bad guys . |
| 26 | They were playing the ancient game of boccia . |
| 27 | The caller gave the name of a football team and Ubaldo had to reply with the name of the team they were playing the following Sunday . |
| 28 | So I would go down there and that 's where I got hip to Van Halen , because all the kids were playing the stupid Eruption solo every day . |
| 29 | Epic were the memories of the subsequent hearty celebrations , with the Hampshire players soaked in ‘ Lordship 's ’ champagne ; with the train back to Southampton ‘ virtually rocked ’ by the near hysterical merrymaking ; with , in a final Wooster-like-oddity , Tennyson having first led his team to the train for Northampton , where , indeed , Warwickshire were playing the next day . |
| 30 | I remember one British Open at Turnberry , we were playing the 16th and Tom had been in a burn . |