Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] play [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would always encourage students to carry on playing with these rhythms and curves that the full shape of these ducks demand . |
| 2 | I want to go on playing for Australia ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 4 | ‘ It was always my intention to go on playing in club competition with Constitution after finishing my international career and to that extent , I am disappointed by the way things have worked out , ’ Lenihan said . |
| 5 | Taylor refuses to say whether Lineker would still be in his team had he carried on playing in England . |
| 6 | We were always working , and other musicians used to come up to play with us . |
| 7 | Coming off the back of some more good build up play from er Leicester . |
| 8 | The boys , one aged just seven , two eight , and the others 11 and 13 , said they found the tablets while out playing near their homes in Huyton , Merseyside , and took one each . |
| 9 | Then he turned up playing for Real Madrid . |
| 10 | That arrangement meant Brian McClair and Gary McAllister turned up to play for Scotland in something less than prime condition . |
| 11 | ‘ I was starting to make the Sunday dinner and Brian said he was going out to play in the park . |
| 12 | If you 're going out to play in that street , it 's cold ! |
| 13 | Instead of which it seems to be going on and on and I 'm finding myself going round playing at stupid amateur detectives . |
| 14 | The knee injury forced him to give up playing at 23 . |
| 15 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 16 | Now that I had my dolls and their dolls ' houses , I set about playing with them with the greatest pleasure , and when I visited Wood Green I shut my eyes to some of the realities . |
| 17 | ‘ Providing I stay fit I will get the record because I plan to keep on playing for some time yet . |
| 18 | And with the job situation generally still getting worse , I shall probably have to keep on playing until the recession ends . |
| 19 | Nick stayed at Muirfield for a morning press conference next day and then flew down to play in a charity pro-am . |
| 20 | I think it started before ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ — it started around the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ period with the clothes and I think we started off playing as a duo in the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ period . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's now made a brave decision in many respects , because he 's been brought up playing for one club in one way . |
| 22 | Platt was in England earlier this week , but flew back to play for Juventus in a friendly against Spal in Ferrara on Wednesday only to be pulled out of the game by his club . |
| 23 | Alia and Aden are coming around to play with you this afternoon . |
| 24 | On sustained regional tours right through his seventies he would go on playing to smaller but no less loving audiences , having no desire for retirement or inactivity . |
| 25 | Then , years later , when he bought his own table ( and a house big enough to put it in ) , and we started playing regularly , almost weekly , we wondered whether we should go on playing for money . |
| 26 | We all went on playing without taking our eyes off the music . |
| 27 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 28 | Walden , who also became a Northamptonshire County cricketer , went on to play for Tottenham . |
| 29 | Patsy Gallacher went on to play for Celtic for 15 years and scored the winning goal in their famous cup-winning side of 1925 , when he beat the entire Dundee defence and somersaulted into the net with the ball between his feet . |
| 30 | She won two of her three matches in the Home Internationals of that year and went on to play for England again in 1935 . |