Example sentences of "play around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the House of Love do offer something of their own — a willingness to play around with the pace of the music , cutting off the power to switch suddenly into a softer , more lyrical approach . |
| 2 | This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ . |
| 3 | Tampopo might have sold a few more bowls of noodles and Babette 's Feast caused little hiccups of interest in historic cooking , but The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover plays around with the relationship between food , sex and death in a way that is bound to cause offence . |
| 4 | For young women more than any other group there is so much scope for expression through the way they dress and look , so many more opportunities to have fun , play around with the rules , and make some of their own . |
| 5 | Just play around with the map for a while , together with a sharp pencil and a long transparent ruler . |
| 6 | If you play around with the savings plan spreadsheet you will quickly discover that the earnings ratio is n't dependent on how much you put into the plan every month , only on how long you save for and the interest rate . |
| 7 | Play around with the shapes and do n't stick things down on your plan unless you are sure they ca n't bc moved . |
| 8 | But this historic drift towards naturalist verisimilitude is constantly undermined — in the eighties generation of crime series , in daytime and prime-time soap , and in series like Moonlighting ( 1985–8 ) , thirtysomething ( 1987- ) , or , most notoriously , Twin Peaks ( 1990–1 ) — by a growing ‘ classical ’ inclination to ‘ play around with the conventions ’ through dream sequence , fantasy and self-reflexiveness . |
| 9 | The usefulness of having transaction processing applications down on the workstation , the company says , is to bring for example sales order processing information closer to the salesperson , who can play around with the data in a windows-based environment , oblivious to the complex processing going on behind the scenes . |
| 10 | One could play around with the word ad nauseam ; then , the next thing that we would be arguing about is the place of the potato in English folklore . |
| 11 | The chub flit in and out of the weed like silent ghosts , grubbing for food , seeking shelter from the bright sun , and sometimes just playing around for the sheer hell of it . |
| 12 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |
| 13 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 14 | They were spotted by a five-year-old playing around with the freeze-frame on his parent 's video . |
| 15 | I 've spent nearly a week playing around with the Korg A2 and I feel I have n't done more than scratch the surface . |
| 16 | Just before my mother 's death , playing around with the photographs on the bedroom mantelpiece , my niece discovered an old photograph underneath one of me at three . |
| 17 | If you have partition walls and not much space or light you can try playing around with the walls a little . |