Example sentences of "[adv] play with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Timbrel groups were almost unknown in Great Britain , and the few instruments around were certainly not played with the vigour and movement familiar to the Australians . |
| 7 | But it was very clear that the Irish were not playing with the conviction they had demonstrated in Dunedin . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ Leeds are not playing with the same confidence as when they won the title . |
| 9 | The 35-year-old Bristol-based Scot , five clear at halfway after two dazzling rounds of 65 and 68 , did not play with the same style in much calmer conditions but rarely looked like losing his grip . |
| 10 | You ca n't go on forever just playing with the children and telling self-deprecating stories about yourself at the Chases ’ dinner parties . |
| 11 | you are just playing with the |
| 12 | And I 'd like you to both spend quite a bit of time just playing with the numbers that make up three sixty . |
| 13 | Oh well I think I 'll ju I 'll just play with the tab and make it pop in and out a few times |
| 14 | She was caught without defences , her mind still playing with the idea of being his darling girl . |
| 15 | He also plays with the notion that the form of a bridge derives from the form of a pine branch and the soft gradations of the photogravure process helps to merge these two forms . |
| 16 | Though our passive acceptance of causal logic and narrative clichés is the novel 's main target , it also plays with the related theme of linguistic laziness . |
| 17 | Yet if she plays at telling the truth , she also plays with the telling of the truth . |
| 18 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 19 | Interestingly , ICL is also one of about a dozen alpha sites for Cypress ' HyperSparc — there are two unnamed companies in Germany also playing with the thing — indeed it reportedly found seven bugs in the chip-set for Cypress . |
| 20 | The description of Sycorax 's magic circulated and of course grew in the telling : scarred by fire , she now played with the element , burning circles of flame round creatures she had demanded Ariel procure for her ; she watched their panic , as they spun in their prison of flames . |
| 21 | A case of the contrast which may be helpful as a mnemonic is that between a symphonic overture ( ascriptive ) which is symphonic in and by itself , and an operatic overture ( associative ) which does not have the usual characteristics of opera ( not only is it purely orchestral , it is often played with the curtain not yet risen ) but which is , nonetheless , designated by a phrase where the property OPERATIC is associated with OVERTURE in order to describe sufficiently what the speaker wishes to identify . |
| 22 | ‘ I simply have n't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove — I 'd rather be out playing with the children or getting out and about , but I do try to make sure we eat well . ’ |
| 23 | He did n't play with the kids , he used to hit them , he 'd take it out on them more than me . |
| 24 | Most other animals did n't play with the humans . |
| 25 | Before young ladies could n't play with the boys . |
| 26 | Do n't play with the sewing box |
| 27 | Intervention is geared towards improving the parent-child relationship by learning how to play with the child , experiencing happy play sessions together , identifying the child 's good characteristics , planning on increasing certain good behaviour , and using reward techniques . |
| 28 | Jan Aage says it 's an education for him and he 's got top learn how to play with the boys |
| 29 | I 'll show you how to play with the other hand |
| 30 | At length his other hand stole forward to play with the copper tresses that fell about the pillows . |