Example sentences of "playing on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing on the third floor of Loew 's Thirty-fourth Street Multiplex , in Cineplex 3 : Fishwanda . |
| 2 | Geelong forward Gary Ablett led his team with a record-breaking nine goals and became only the second person to win the most valuable player award while playing on a losing side . |
| 3 | A Football League spokesman admitted : ‘ The fixture is still under review and we are aware that some concern has been expressed about playing on the Friday night . ’ |
| 4 | Because of the Farm 's history , they used the occasion to mount a show of force , and to do so at 5pm , when children playing on the estate would be terrified by the raid , but when they could be sure of a good spot on the Six O'Clock News . |
| 5 | But with stunning clarity they demonstrate again how the great reformer has unleashed forces which he and his country no longer control , and which now are playing on the German Question itself , the issue which lies at the very heart of today 's European order . |
| 6 | I wondered if it was him , playing on a pre-recorded tape ; or his brother . |
| 7 | To spend a night at Bishopstrow House is to be pampered : it is elegant gracious , the warm , mosaicked swimming pool is often empty ; and playing on the indoor tennis court makes you feel worthy of eating quantities . |
| 8 | Now that we are playing on an increasingly crowded stage , with 24 Western countries concerting economic assistance to Eastern Europe , and 35 countries negotiating over Europe 's future security , we have to recognise that we are only one voice among many . |
| 9 | A match would involve three teams instead of two , playing on a triangular pitch with three sets of goals . |
| 10 | Robinson says : ‘ We are playing on average 10 games less than when in Europe , and the fans are n't happy . ’ |
| 11 | A spokesman for BNFL said : ‘ We were not playing on fears , just presenting the facts , although we could not address all the issues in one advertisment . ’ |
| 12 | Capriati , who won the junior French and US Open titles this year , admits she is ‘ excited but anxious ’ about playing on the tour . |
| 13 | They prefer to block aggressively , opening the way for the run , instead of playing on their heels , containing pass rushers . |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , but a song like ‘ Strength to Strength' ’ is a joke we 're playing on the English working class after the election . |
| 15 | IN THE early 1920s , one of the daughters of the Reverend Puxley who resided at the rectory at that time , was playing on the lawn , then separated from the road by a thick laurel hedge . |
| 16 | You may recall that in 1976 a Church of Scotland minister , defending his action in shooting two of Gavin Maxwell 's adopted otter cubs as they were playing on the shore , argued that ‘ the Lord gave man control over the beasts of the field ’ . |
| 17 | They stay on stage to watch the play , with Petruchio 's manipulation of Katherine very obviously mirroring the tricks they are playing on poor Sly . |
| 18 | Earlier this month the under-16 soccer team reached the last 32 of the All England and Wales Schoolboys competition , playing on the same Bamber Bridge pitch visited by Mr Calvin . |
| 19 | This was the pattern more or less throughout , with only occasional snatches of George 's lead playing on show . |
| 20 | Next month he will commute from his home in Fulham to a club in Hamburg , where he will prepare for the grass-court season by playing on clay for a club in the Second Division of the German League . |
| 21 | What turned the campaign around was playing on another strength : his genuine fondness for getting among the public , even a hostile public . |
| 22 | In the same way that the latter introduces , almost unconsciously , knowledge of the origin of words and the structure of a sentence , so playing on damp or drying pitches fills the gaps in a developing batsman 's technique . |
| 23 | Benjamin B'Hahn — whose father , Abel pioneered underwater births — fell while playing on the river bank two months ago . |
| 24 | Becker 's surprising defeat by Spain 's Jordi Burillo in Barcelona last week suggests the former Wimbledon and world champion has still not come to terms with playing on the European clay , which predominates to the end of the French Open in early June . |
| 25 | Michael Jackson reportedly paid a backing musician £1 million for playing on his last tour . |
| 26 | Theology must somehow be playing on a different pitch , with revelation determining the rules and faith the outcome . |
| 27 | To be like other people : gardening at the weekend , scent of freshly-mown grass , children playing on the lawn ; wife in a cotton dress , long-legged , her smile sharing with him their private memories , future secured . |
| 28 | It was at the 1984 event that Badgemore Park 's Professional , Mark Howell , returned his 66 , his card being 4-2-3-3-4-4-3-5-5-(33) and 4-3-4-3-5-3-2-4-5-(33) , playing on the present ( and newly lengthened ) course . |
| 29 | Leapor often compliments other women in her poems , and two poems , ‘ Song to Cloe , playing on her Spinnet ’ and ‘ Silvia and the Bee ’ , are given over to praising the beauty and the accomplishments of particular friends . |
| 30 | ‘ Song to Cloe , playing on her Spinnet ’ especially displays a delicate touch and a complete control of form . |