Example sentences of "[be] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , but a song like ‘ Strength to Strength' ’ is a joke we 're playing on the English working class after the election . |
| 2 | You did , so you 're playing at the weekend . |
| 3 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 4 | If you 're playing against the computer you 'll play the first half kicking from left to right , changing ends at half time . |
| 5 | So he asked me to play , cos they 're playing against the Scotches . |
| 6 | They 're playing in the cup next week ! |
| 7 | ‘ I hear you 're playing in the music competition tonight , ’ he said to Anthony . |
| 8 | You 're playing in the wrong league with those Taigs . ’ |
| 9 | That 's right Jane , I 'll be off to Culham Road shortly to cover the match between Abingdon Town and Brackley , Bracknell ; they 're playing in the Vauxhall League Division two south and some team news for Town — does n't read very well , I 'm afraid , mid fielders Kevin Connelly and Keith Appleton , they 've both been ruled out . |
| 10 | And if , only if we 're guided by football , they 're playing in the morning , they 'll finish , they 'll , they do n't play in the , in the |
| 11 | The sounds are played via the 12 fingertip-sized pads spread across the bottom quarter of the front panel . |
| 12 | The sounds are played via the 12 fingertip-sized pads spread across the bottom quarter of the front panel . |
| 13 | All sorts of status games are played via the telephone . |
| 14 | Note that in the above example , the E ♭ and E ♯ are played on the G string , the D string remaining open . |
| 15 | The tapes are played on the store 's cassette player and will encourage staff to explore particular products on the shop floor as part of their on-going training . |
| 16 | I thought Eng v SM was 16th & Pol vs Hol 17th but I 've heard that they 've been rescheduled so that they are played at the same time . |
| 17 | How many points are played in the entire set ? |
| 18 | Most of the games are played in the Glasgow area — on one occasion across the street from Ibrox , home of Glasgow Rangers . |
| 19 | The Ormesby Hall club , whose home games are played in the grounds of the National Trust property , is now in its fourth year and contrary to popular belief it 's not just old ladies and vicars who participate in the genteel Sunday afternoon pastime . |
| 20 | The Olympic cricket match was the only time the sport has actually been played at the Olympics , but an England Test captain . |
| 21 | Love , 25 , had two eagles and four birdies in a round which he said would probably not have been played on the USPGA tour . |
| 22 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 23 | We are , though , left with the question of exactly which orchestra we have had the pleasure of listening to : while the back cover of the jewel case states that both works have been played by the Canadians under Barshai , the inner notes suggest ( unbelievably ) that one of them may have been performed by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Norman Del Mar ! |
| 24 | The final act of the winter of discontent had been played by the students . |
| 25 | Rugby has been played in the Soviet Union since the end of the last century when a Scottish businessman organised a game between expatriates in Moscow . |
| 26 | Assuming that we wanted to explore the harmonic potential of a basic C major scale ( remember you can and should apply this approach to other scale types as well ! ) , the first step would be to play through the triads ( a suggested fingering with each maj chord voiced 1,5,1,3 , each min chord voiced 1,2,1 , ♭3 , and the diminished chord voiced 1 , ♭5,1 , ♭3 is given in fig 1 ) . |
| 27 | One of the best ways for Wolstenholme to ease his nerves a little will be to play in the par-three competition today . |
| 28 | Although the monodists were already using figures to indicate the intervals to be played above the bass , Viadana does not . |
| 29 | NetWare will be played as the network services provider and Unix as the application server . |
| 30 | Either side , or the jury , could ask for the tape itself to be played during the trial and the judge would almost always accede ; difficulties might arise where the tape contained objectionable or inadmissible evidence , for example , references to previous convictions , but these could usually be overcome . |