Example sentences of "playing [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be that you are playing the critical parent . |
| 2 | Bob Monkhouse — already established as a leading comedy writer and just moving into performing — playing the poor wretch called up on his wedding day and Shirley Eaton as the NAAFI girl who would come back for just one more ‘ Carry On ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Major took a gamble by playing the Unionist card and warning that devolution and nationalism could lead to the break-up of the UK . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Desperate needs , and all that … but was n't Charles playing the guileless chicken to Guy Sterne 's wily fox ? |
| 6 | He leaned towards Wu Tsai , laughing , smiling , playing the ancient game with ease and charm , but his attention was focused on herself . |
| 7 | They were playing the ancient game of boccia . |
| 8 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 9 | Tonight 's Jeeves and Wooster has Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie playing the ingenious manservant and dimwitted aristocrat moving in the smart set of the 1930s , enjoying themselves and going to lots of wonderful parties . |
| 10 | Ward was smiling a bright , happy , almost drunken smile , playing the innocent Scot and putting on his broadest accent . |
| 11 | It is an orchestral session featuring Danish musicians plus Davis , John McLaughlin on guitar , and Vince Wilburn on drums playing the Scandinavian trumpeter 's Palle Mikkelborg 's concerto for his hero , recorded in Copenhagen to accompany Miles 's receipt of the Sonning Music Prize , a tribute whose earlier recipients have been Stravinsky , Leonard Bernstein , and Isaac Stern . |
| 12 | Davide wanted to burst out , ‘ You hypocrite , stop making up to my sisters and playing the shining knight , I saw you go to communion today , and it made me sick . |
| 13 | And later — much later at the National Theatre playing the young Captain Absolute — did that grow out of being seen in these performances ? |
| 14 | The Japanese boy was playing the long hole with quite masterful wisdom . |
| 15 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 16 | Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student . |
| 17 | I should not like my playing the Good Samaritan to end in a flaming holocaust . ’ |
| 18 | There he went again , playing the good guy , pretending he was interested in her success ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The merry scoundrel pleasure-court of Sir John Falstaff was mirrored in the company of Hugh Griffith and the Welsh contingent , with Burton playing the key figure in both . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But their magnetism was beginning to be challenged as early as 1953 by Marilyn Monroe , playing the busty gold-digger , Lorelei Lee , in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes alongside Jane Russell , whose bust , supported by a specially cantilevered bra designed by her master Howard Hughes , was the most noticeable asset she had . |
| 23 | We are situated on a tiny island out in the middle of the Persian Gulf and do not have the luxury of soft green surfaces to indulge in our love of playing the great game . |
| 24 | Every time he came back , he was playing the new game with increasingly outdated tools . |
| 25 | They 're the ones that call radio stations and demand more airtime , scream when the station is not playing the new album , and eventually cause it to happen for you . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah they 're all nice nice girls you know this is like the other week we was here playing the other team and one of the other team was swearing you know , and particularly you know the girls in , might have not they have the they used to play for Black Bear and you know the that lady that 's up there , she still swears and we stopped her from here used to f this , f that and f the other , we did , we stopped her said if you ca n't find a better word than that to use I should n't bother , you know As you know Shirl do n't like that . |
| 27 | Cos one office was playing the other office off against each other . |
| 28 | It became the leper of a consciousness playing the moral majority . |
| 29 | We 're playing the hated enemy Sunderland ( they 've fluked their way to the final ) . |
| 30 | Again , by playing the right manufacturing ‘ games , ’ the team quickly became an authority on SMED [ Single Minute Exchange of DIE ] . |