Example sentences of "[adv] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pair were pitched together to play in the opening two rounds , and while Couples collapsed with a 77 , Faldo reduced their duel in the sun to a calculated ambush . |
| 2 | Imagine you 're throwing a party , and you can have any musicians , past or present , along to play for the night — who would you choose ? |
| 3 | All three Suffolk players come from the Stowmarket club and two were successful : Edmund Player , one of a small handful of team members who will still be young enough to play for the team again next year , and Josephine Badger , who also represents Norfolk . |
| 4 | One industry observer , Bill Welter. a consultant to Applied Concepts , believes that by 1983 there will be three chess calculators available that will be good enough to play against the top 5 per cent of rated players . |
| 5 | He had felt no pain , nor had any indication that , even though he appeared fit enough to play in the First Division , he was about to become a victim of coronary problems . |
| 6 | Mr Van de Velde stresses than any player not fit enough to play in the first round of the Premiership on April 26 will not be considered for the final . |
| 7 | The 35-year-old Welshman , though , has no doubts he is still good enough to play in the Ryder Cup match at the Belfry in September . |
| 8 | It 's quite amusing , the England players have erm , got a second row and he 's not big enough to play in the second row for England |
| 9 | It is interesting to note that only the Irish anthem is played in Dublin and that at Twickenham God Save The Queen — not any other specifically English song or anthem — is rightly played as the National Anthem . |
| 10 | The players all played at the same time , and they were always arguing and fighting for hedgehogs . |
| 11 | Notice in the above scale description that the B♭ is the ♭3 of G ; in the solo this note is only played against the C chord and therefore functions as a ♭7 . |
| 12 | Although he had merely played with the idea , he had thought about murder this morning and who was to say that given propitious circumstances and the required degree of desperation , he might not indeed … murder ? |
| 13 | We only play during the months of August to May . |
| 14 | Again , not everyone — and surely not McGeechan — would view with any great enthusiasm the prospect of returning to the previous law and the spectacle of sundry sides , but England especially , so often merely playing for the next scrum . |
| 15 | As a detailed opinion poll conducted in May showed , there was considerable support for the general aims of the strikers — better security and majority-rule devolved government — but there was also a strong sense that the strike was ill advised and would only play into the hands of republicans . |
| 16 | When the army ousted the Rump in October 1659 he and a group of other naval officers then ashore wrote to Monck in Scotland , urging him to accept the coup , arguing that divisions would only play into the hands of the cavaliers . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been inundated with complaints from local people who feel this ‘ over-the-top ’ action will only play into the hands of loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 18 | We have God-given talents for a reason so play to the best of your ability at all times Never be satisfied until you have given 100 per cent . |
| 19 | Look out , all those companies that are eagerly playing in the digital cellular telephony market with Time Division Multiple Access technology : the King of Prussia , Pennsylvania-based InterDigital Patents Corp unit of InterDigital Communications Corp says it has engaged the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro & Morin to represent it in connection with possible patent infringement litigation to enforce its portfolio of 32 US patents on the technology . |
| 20 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
| 21 | Both are only playing with the conventions of the mainstream domestic sitcom of the past 30 years , when writers have looked to the theatre ( notably the work of Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn ) as a model . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Annabel , who always excited more by her appearance than her standard of play , knew she would soon be going to the ball as Cinderella and she was only playing in the National Championships on a whim . |
| 24 | So I just played off the monitors . |
| 25 | Sue Harvey urges parents to think before they buy and not to play into the hands of the clubs : |
| 26 | We should be careful not to play into the hands of murderers . |
| 27 | Their bauble was this striking singer-guitarist with exquisite cheekbones and girl 's eyelashes , who was being asked to model clothes for magazines but not to play at the Albert Hall . |
| 28 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 29 | ‘ And Carl has decided not to play in the Top 12 because of a commitment with his German League team . |
| 30 | The initial experience for any child is just to play with the pieces to familiarise himself with them all and this often takes the form of picture and pattern making — similar to the early use of the other structured apparatus . |