Example sentences of "playing [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pozsgay was simply fed up with playing second fiddle , a characteristic that was to re-emerge later . |
| 2 | ON A London Saturday , an unknown and unsigned dance band called Motion Incorporated were supposedly playing second billing to My Jealous God , and ended up catapulting themselves into the crowd 's heart . |
| 3 | Used to playing second fiddle to its Mitsubishi rival and happily mopping up any disappointed Shogun buyers who failed to get their hands on one of the current quota , the Trooper has still etched itself a firm place in the off-roader scene and remains , as it usually has been , an underestimated vehicle . |
| 4 | It was felt that the Clauses which neutralized the Black Sea and prohibited Russia from maintaining warships within its confines were more advantageous to Britain than to France and that once again France was playing second fiddle . |
| 5 | It was in 1947 that he appeared in It Happened in Brooklyn , playing second fiddle to a scrawny thirty-one-year-old bobbysox idol with hollow cheeks , Frank Sinatra . |
| 6 | The Norwegian international goalkeeper is worried that playing second fiddle to Ian Walker at Tottenham will harm his World Cup prospects of playing against England in October . |
| 7 | She might also have simply got tired of playing second fiddle to the Prince 's pastimes . |
| 8 | He had been a reluctant ally and may well have resented playing second fiddle to his younger brother . |
| 9 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 10 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 11 | He was having an increasingly similar role to play in his other work , even though in the ‘ Carry On ’ pictures he was just one of a team and in Beyond Our Ken was playing second fiddle to the other Kenneth . |
| 12 | It would imply that the team playing second would know *exactly* what they would have to do to qualify . |
| 13 | The return of Tony Hanson to the team that lost in the last five seconds at Broxbourne could be the inspiration , but with Doncaster playing second placed Oldham and Plymouth at fourth placed Brixton , the two teams above them could well lose ground . |
| 14 | I just cant see what difference playing 1st team for Leeds would do . |
| 15 | That way he will be playing 1st team footbal and still belong to us . |
| 16 | Mrs Theresa Murphy , the Mayor 's wife , had , by dint of playing first violin in the local amateur orchestra , established herself as one of the cultural leaders of Tollemarche . |
| 17 | The exception is Beckus , still the most sparkling of Arnold 's comedy pieces , which was first recorded for Decca with Eduard van Beinum conducting , and with the composer himself playing first trumpet , by the LPO in 1947 . |
| 18 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 19 | Is Scott Sellars playing first team football at the moment ? |
| 20 | But in the Batty case , if he had refused to leave , he would still be playing first team football . |
| 21 | weakness : midfield/up front — Nilsen is a defender and Ingebrigtsen is not playing first team futba for City — he has been rented out to norwegian club rosenborg this summer and is now back in city , trying to get a first team place . |
| 22 | John Byrne says … he 's looking forward to playing first team football again and has still got a lot of goals left in him |
| 23 | Some clubs with injury problems and players missing through suspension have put off playing first round Yorkshire cup-ties . |
| 24 | Norway boss Egil Olsen has insisted all his players must be playing first team football to come into consideration for international duty . |
| 25 | They were without the strong Provincial Town 's players Barry Moffatt and Jeremy Henry but late call-up Damien Olphert was very impressive playing third to Cookstown 's Colm McHugh . |
| 26 | This will be a repeat of last year 's final when Gillian Barr , playing third for Hay here , defeated the same United States line-up in only nine ends . |
| 27 | Then , in a startling turnaround , Langer and Elkington , holding the joint lead and playing last , both bogeyed five straight holes — from the 11th through the 15th — and fell from contention . |
| 28 | you playing last night ? |
| 29 | what were you playing last night , forgotten what it was called , it begins with B. |
| 30 | Berserk he was playing last night . |