Example sentences of "[was/were] play in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat ironically , given the role bankers were to play in the conspiracy theory , she was the daughter of a director of Barclay 's Bank . |
| 2 | Because of the heat , matches were played in the late afternoon . |
| 3 | Someone was taking a frightful chance I felt ; these games were always held on a Sunday and the English community in Baghdad came out to the camp as several matches were played in the afternoon . |
| 4 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 5 | ‘ You were playing in the corridors , were n't you , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 7 | I guess the fifties was my favourite period for the blues and so the guys that were making records — most of the Chicago people who were playing in the fifties and who are still around — are the ones that I am always interested in playing with . ’ |
| 8 | Of the fifty teams taking part in the parade , only eight were playing in the four finals , but there was still the prize for the best-turned-out team to be won . |
| 9 | I remember my first-ever game , it was at a place called The Golden Sands Holiday Camp , and they had one snooker table , right next to the miniature railway — it used to be very off-putting when you were playing in the holiday camp competition . |
| 10 | Yvonne , placed transracially and now twenty-four years old , will never forget the day when she and friends were playing in the park and saw a black man passing by . |
| 11 | Whe when you were did n't it happen Mrs that when you were playing in the street one day , you were knocked over by a tram ? |
| 12 | ‘ Getting my own back , ’ Dexter smiled , ‘ for all that bloody opera you were playing in the car today . ’ |
| 13 | Captain Ian Smith and Peter Jones were playing in the Scottish Trial ; both have been selected as replacements for the Calcutta Cup . |
| 14 | The children were playing in the room and they could have found it and I dread to think what may have happened . |
| 15 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 16 | Its emphasis on careful measurement and exact analysis of the events mediated by receptors was to be justified by the key role this was to play in the subsequent development of novel drugs for the treatment of , for example , angina and hypertension . |
| 17 | Chapman 's appreciation of individual strengths and weaknesses meant that each man was played in the position that best suited and developed his talents . |
| 18 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 19 | Winning team captain Mike Kemp says : ‘ It was all good fun and every game was played in the right spirit . |
| 20 | THE Grand Final of the Fruit of the Loom £1,000 quiz was played in the Lough Swilly Yacht Club in Fahan last Friday night . |
| 21 | To complete the big time atmosphere , music from famous shows was played in the restaurant . |
| 22 | There was some kind of festa that day , for the narrow streets and the Corillo were dense with merry throngs of students and the tuna was playing in the Plaza Mayor . |
| 23 | Along at the High School where the films were being shown , Charlie Chaplin was starring with Paulette Goddard in The Great Dictator ( 1940 ) and at the Statdtheater George Tabori 's Mein Kampf was playing in the evenings while , during the day , there was a week-long symposium entitled Mein Kampf — Theatre after Auschwitz . |
| 24 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 25 | Sometimes when he was playing in the house , he would bump into his father by accident . |
| 26 | Zahid ( 3.11 ) was playing in the sand pit in the playground , one of a group of four children , with a teacher , engaged in digging a trench around a log . |
| 27 | On that day , his boss was playing in the Canon European Masters , returning a score of 73 . |
| 28 | ‘ Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head . |
| 29 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 30 | Trace — as she liked to be called — at eighteen was playing in the crack South Sussex team against Rutshire in the final . |