Example sentences of "[pron] was play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was playing with the orchestra accompanying Peer Gynt , conducted by the New College organist , Dr ( and eventually Sir ) William Harris . |
| 2 | I was playing with the dog a |
| 3 | In May I was playing in the FA Cup final against Liverpool . |
| 4 | I was playing against the West Indies and I scored eight off a Cummins over without hitting a four , and for Natal |I 've build some 80s and 90s that have been matchwinning performances , but this time I 've just got far too excited ’ . |
| 5 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 6 | In a taped interview which was played to the jury , Paul said : ‘ I just thought it was like a little tap on the head and that he would be all right . |
| 7 | As well as academic achievements , McGill was noted for originating two major sports : ice hockey , in 1875 , largely from the rules written by J.G.A. Creighton ; and a species of rugby which was played by the citizens and soldiers ( for Montreal had remained a garrison town ) as well as the students . |
| 8 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 9 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 10 | SADIE cuffed the wee boy who was playing with the leather strap that opened the front window and settled down to watch the world rush past and eat her batter . |
| 11 | No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season . |
| 12 | He is accused of wounding David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , Liverpool , who was playing for the Oxton-based Queens Arms team . |
| 13 | John Newton , 25 , a chemist of New Hey Road , Woodchurch , Birkenhead , has pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , who was playing for the Queens Arms team from Oxton . |
| 14 | Nilsson admitted : ‘ Last season we had problems over who was playing on the right and nobody was there apart from me . |
| 15 | In fact , she went off to a jazz club with other musician friends that very evening , to drown her sorrows , and met your father , who was playing in the band . ’ |
| 16 | The giant Czech , capped 40 times by his country , pulled out of their recent World Cup qualifier against Romania because it was played on the day before West Ham 's crunch derby at Millwall . |
| 17 | Lee missed West 's win at Boroughmuir on Saturday because he was playing for the North under-21s on Sunday , and he scored the injury time try which completed the North 's clean sweep in the Divisional Championship . |
| 18 | Sometimes when he was playing in the house , he would bump into his father by accident . |
| 19 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |
| 20 | It was n't Fairclough — he was playing in the Batty position . |
| 21 | A fit and healthy 10 year old , he was playing in the lounge with his brother when he fell on a knitting needle , which pierced his neck and punctured his spinal cord . |
| 22 | When they came in to work they park their cars and he was playing in the car park . |
| 23 | It just goes to show how well he 's done , he was playing in the early seventies , but we should win ; what we 've got to do tomorrow is not just win well , but we 've got to pick up those points , we must win . |
| 24 | as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things |