Example sentences of "playing on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was at the 1984 event that Badgemore Park 's Professional , Mark Howell , returned his 66 , his card being 4-2-3-3-4-4-3-5-5-(33) and 4-3-4-3-5-3-2-4-5-(33) , playing on the present ( and newly lengthened ) course .
2 So did two or three naked kids playing on the strip of beach .
3 And the army of companies , seeking to relieve angler and fishkeeper alike of their hard-earned , tap up both by playing on the twin human weaknesses of snobbery and one-upmanship .
4 ‘ If the three of them were playing on the day , I think I 'd go to see Tranmere … ‘
5 If you are changing your swing technique around to improve your game , it should never necessitate not playing on the course .
6 She gestured to the child playing on the floor .
7 One of the things the kid 's got to do learn his language sentence and in the context he can figure out what the sentence has to mean , like radical interpretation kid , the kid is sitting playing on the floor , a rabbit 's bounced by and the mother goes .
8 Benjamin B'Hahn — whose father , Abel pioneered underwater births — fell while playing on the river bank two months ago .
9 Dale Anderson was playing on the balcony at the Hotel Barracuda in Magaluf , Majorca , when he fell from the fifth floor .
10 Yet , when playing on the rugger field you concentrate effortlessly .
11 ‘ Most occur when those playing on the mattress fall of it because the surrounding surface is firm rather than cushioned .
12 Outside , the blackbirds scolded and the sound of children playing on the green , glorying in the first few outdoor games of spring , could be faintly heard .
13 Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog .
14 The music playing on the stand was vintage Shadows and as the guitars belted out ‘ Apache ’ David helped Belinda into one of the brightly coloured cars and Rachel followed Danny to another .
15 IN THE early 1920s , one of the daughters of the Reverend Puxley who resided at the rectory at that time , was playing on the lawn , then separated from the road by a thick laurel hedge .
16 To be like other people : gardening at the weekend , scent of freshly-mown grass , children playing on the lawn ; wife in a cotton dress , long-legged , her smile sharing with him their private memories , future secured .
17 ‘ Eric Black could be playing on the moon for all the French know . ’
18 You may recall that in 1976 a Church of Scotland minister , defending his action in shooting two of Gavin Maxwell 's adopted otter cubs as they were playing on the shore , argued that ‘ the Lord gave man control over the beasts of the field ’ .
19 Capriati , who won the junior French and US Open titles this year , admits she is ‘ excited but anxious ’ about playing on the tour .
20 What 's playing on the stereo ?
21 What 's playing on the stereo ?
22 Just look at a swan landing on water , a whale leaping out of the water , or a child playing on the beach — such beauty just in the movements .
23 My medical eye noticed two things immediately : there were virtually no flies near the children playing on the beach ; and the dog lying down was no scrawny , starving mongrel .
24 And we when we came of age puberty I was frightened to death me because I was sitting on the bea we were playing on the beach still a child of twelve cos we still went about with little socks on at twelve in them days .
25 When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified .
26 Their reunion with the twins — who 'd been playing on the beach with the Meadowes 's little girl , Kerry-Jane — was an almost heartbreaking occasion .
27 Handel is playing on the CD and candles are lit , and the most beautiful children I have ever seen scurry about in pink and cream pyjamas .
28 Garry and Benny Ryan were playing on the bombsite that was once Testerton Street .
29 Usual story — reversed out of the garage , did n't look behind , child playing on the drive . ’
30 That 's the people playing on the violin for the orchestra .
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