Example sentences of "playing with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales had believed they were playing with the malevolent elements in the second-half , Armstrong 's kick disabused them of that notion . |
| 2 | ‘ And I 've got the challenge of playing with the best players in the best stadiums . ’ |
| 3 | Some signing — he 's been with first division , Avignon in the French league and is used to playing with the best . |
| 4 | Putting that aside , I enjoyed playing with the various contraptions which was both fun and time filling ( during boring lunch hours ! ) |
| 5 | He was sitting on the counter in the shop , now , playing with the fiddling and fluting monkeys with his good left hand . |
| 6 | Enoch was playing with the other children in the family only yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 8 | Donna ( 5.1 ) and Sharon ( 4.10 ) were playing with the All sorts and had made sets with them placing the sets in columns . |
| 9 | Ideas of comparison and ordering come from playing with the many toys with graded components , e.g. Russian nesting dolls , pyramid rings , stacking cubes and boxes . |
| 10 | He started playing with the dark hair spilling over his chest . |
| 11 | For skinheads are playing with the only power at their disposal — the power of having nothing ( much ) to lose . |
| 12 | I hoped that Herta would spend some of her time playing with the little Wirthses . |
| 13 | Nobody knew that she really was playing with the local children , in her own way . |
| 14 | In yesterday 's second game Short had soon obtained a slight advantage playing with the white pieces , but as the players again ran short of time Karpov obtained strong counterplay on the queenside . |
| 15 | His stage presence lately has been little more than a presence ; he seems happy to stand in the shadows , occupying his usual spot on the drum riser while the spotlight dances on Bez and Bez dances with Rowetta and Rowetta plays with her whip , a caricature bad girl playing with the bad boys . |
| 16 | He felt detached , as if he was floating high up above them and the executioners were only playing with the useless bundle of flesh that had once been his body . |
| 17 | For Field 's piano concertos , two of which O'Conor is playing with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this week , contain astonishing music , material which it is hard to believe was conceived at the turn of the 18th to 19th century . |
| 18 | Late ‘ 76 saw Linda in this country with an excellent show and playing with the same guitarists that had appeared on the album . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Leeds are not playing with the same confidence as when they won the title . |
| 20 | Running back down the avenue , daffodil leaves yellowing on its verges , young beech leaves playing with the light overhead , Nicandra felt purged of the morning 's unfortunate happenings : of all of them except the thrust of horror that had pierced her before the death of a lamb . |