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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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
8 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 .
9 The players all played at the same time , and they were always arguing and fighting for hedgehogs .
10 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 .
11 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 ?
12 We only play during the months of August to May .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 So I just played off the monitors .
24 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 .
25 ‘ I have not come to the North-East just to play in the FA Cup , ’ he said .
26 both sides are full of promising and talented men , and the present series could well become one of the best played between the two countries if good sense prevails .
27 ‘ They 've already played in the Northern Intermediate League for under 19s , and they have n't left school yet .
28 The Vanbrugh have already played in the Americas — north , central and south — and in a number of European countries , including the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland .
29 ‘ We would sooner play in the lowest league than merge with anyone , ’ he declared .
30 He is already playing for the team and has the qualities to perhaps captain France on day .
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