Example sentences of "to play a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |
| 2 | That the local priests continued to play a significant part in the regulation of local sexual morality from the beginning of the state is shown by accounts of ‘ boy meets girl ’ from the 1920s . |
| 3 | Meanwhile John tells the child that he is going to play a trick on Mary and transfers the coin into the blue box . |
| 4 | They are often most valuable members of a company because of their ability to sink their own personalities in order to play a range of entirely unusual characters such as the comic Alain in La Fille Mal Gardée , the tragic Bratfisch in Mayerling , Kolia , the son , in A Month in the Country and the ridiculous short dancer in Elite Syncopations . |
| 5 | 1s it small or large and who is to play a general or particular part in the action ? |
| 6 | De Valois , Ashton and MacMillan have studied paintings and drawings by English artists and/or the words of such great playwrights as Shakespeare and translated them into gestures for which the dancer 's whole body has to play a part . |
| 7 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
| 8 | Labour sought to play a role in achieving those goals . |
| 9 | In a further cost-cutting exercise , Russell has volunteered to play a pub drunk . |
| 10 | Despite official denials , it appears the US did agree to play a limited , and deniable , role in the rebellion . |
| 11 | ONE OF the finest conductors of his generation , Witold Rowicki had the good fortune to play a central role in his country 's musical reconstruction after the Second World War . |
| 12 | Reigning in their verbal and facial expressiveness to play a character so damaged that a big speech is possible ( if at all ) only at the end , they subsequently receive an award from a jury awed that they were clever enough to play so dumb . |
| 13 | Rugby Union : Chilcott is forced to play a waiting game |
| 14 | ‘ We 're going to play a physical , passing game and we must keep the score low to stand a chance , so we need to slow the game down , not allow the opposition any space and keep possession . |
| 15 | Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee , then a Group Captain commanding 904 Wing , took over the airfield at Kemajoran which was to play a key role in the repatriation of POWs and internees . |
| 16 | Therefore the little Ramsey , when he arrived at Repton in 1918 , met a headmaster destined to play a far more important part in his life than is the fate of most headmasters . |
| 17 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 18 | This is when ‘ pluggers ’ start trying to ‘ persuade ’ presenters and producers to play a particular record . |
| 19 | The British Prime Minister is inevitably pushed to play a major public role — as head of the government in Parliament , as public spokesman for the government , as leader of the nation on visits abroad , and as chairman and summarizer of Cabinet discussions . |
| 20 | It massively increased the budget of the Manpower Services Commission , enabling it to play a dominant role in vocational education . |
| 21 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 22 | In the rural areas , family and tribal loyalties will continue to be important and religion and superstition will continue to play a major role . |
| 23 | With but two new cars on show — the mighty Mercedes 500E and the technologically overdosed Mitsubishi Sigma — Paris seemed set to play a soft second fiddle to Birmingham 's show . |
| 24 | It was an interesting thought , to learn something in order to forget it ; as Fräulein Silber had said , like learning how to ride a bike , but like many other things , too , learning to play a musical instrument for instance . |
| 25 | Like all Save the Children 's community projects , these Centres are developed in partnership with their users and parents are encouraged to play a major role in both running the Centre and raising funds . |
| 26 | But in September 1985 he joined forces with a man who was to play a large part in changing all that . |
| 27 | Like when I used to play a seeded player , I did n't think ‘ OK , I 'm going to lose to a seed ’ but ‘ All right — this is my opportunity to beat a seed ’ . ’ |
| 28 | England are due to play a friendly in Dublin on March 28 and even before the draw Lansdowne Road was assured of a sell-out . |
| 29 | The South-West forwards tried to play a similar mauling game , but with Teague far short of his true form they seldom made much headway and only occasionally produced clean possession for Hill . |
| 30 | Peter Robinson , Liverpool 's chief executive , said the plan for top English , Scottish and Irish clubs to play a knock-out competition had been the basis for the agreement to reduce the First Division . |