Example sentences of "[conj] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 2 | Use quiet music on a tape or played by the organ or music group . |
| 3 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |
| 4 | It 's cramped if there are four of you , but the atmosphere is very friendly and relaxed — neighbours popping in to borrow a cup of sugar or a 50p coin for the electricity meter , children running along the balconies or playing on the thin strip of grass between the blocks . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) In this Part , ‘ recording ’ means any record from which visual images or sounds may , by any means , be reproduced ; and references to the distribution , showing or playing of a recording are to its distribution , showing or playing to the public or a section of the public . ’ |
| 6 | There is a defence that the distributor , displayer or player who had no intention to stir up racial hatred was ignorant of , and had no reason to suspect that the contents of the item in question were threatening , abusive or insulting , and the section does not apply where the showing or playing of the recording is solely for the purpose of inclusion in a cable programme service . |
| 7 | Everyone else in her class would be spending the holidays riding or playing in the hills or lying in bed until midday . |
| 8 | You see when Scum play passes like that it 's ‘ running into space & playing through the channels ’ . |
| 9 | The children should be allowed to make things or play with the wood as they wish , but other materials may extend the possibility for experiment . |
| 10 | Relax outside in a deckchair whilst the youngsters explore the rockpools or play in the sandpit . |
| 11 | Its no use really having Rocky sit on the bench , or play in the reserves because Strach is fit . |
| 12 | OLDHAM have placed Paul Round , their second-row forward , on the transfer list for £95,000 , claiming he is in breach of contract for refusing to train or play for the club , writes Paul Fitzpatrick . |
| 13 | For a start his mother had always taught him that it was a sin to work or play on the Sabbath . |
| 14 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 15 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 17 | There are now six machines that play at the standard of the best 30 per cent of rated players , and three in the class of the top 20 per cent . |
| 18 | Her husband , Mr Harry Helmsley , 83 , a property magnate , who escaped joining his wife in the dock on tax charges because of ill-health , said he had ordered the lights that play on the art deco pinnacle turned off as a ‘ symbolic gesture ’ . |
| 19 | Henry hopes that playing for the officially rehabilitated South African Test side will mean he can inspire other coloureds to break down prejudices . |
| 20 | Greenidge was happy to admit that playing alongside the South African was ‘ an education and an inspiration ’ , but he also conceded that while they both had many outstanding days individually they did not score as many runs in partnership as they might have done , since they were both attacking players and therefore risk-takers . |
| 21 | After going out manicuring she started spending Sunday afternoons in bed and we could n't stay in the house nor play on the doorstep for fear of disturbing her . |
| 22 | ‘ Ian still lives in the Scarborough area and naturally reckons first team action is better than playing in the reserves , ’ said McHale . |
| 23 | Grobbelaar , Anfield 's No 1 keeper for 11 years , lost his place a week later when he resumed his international career with Zimbabwe rather than play in the opening League game at Nottingham Forest . |
| 24 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 25 | But in the context of the modern cultural mythology of the artist/model relationship , this statement simply begs further questions and plays on the frisson of sexuality activated by the exhibition . |
| 26 | and plays on the pink film of their eyelids ; |
| 27 | If the lamp is adjusted , by a circular knob set into the side , the purple glow can be made much brighter and plays over the mutant . |
| 28 | The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way . |
| 29 | Due to the overcrowding of thoughts , emotions and subconscious patternings , our attention is drawn down from its princely abode between and above the eyes and plays among the tattwas , gross and subtle , of the physical realm . |
| 30 | However in doing so you deprived us of detailed insights into the conditions of life in other parts of the world , and played into the hands of the New Right with its ‘ divide and conquer ’ tactics . |