Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly I play with the clean channel on full crunch and the lead channel on 16 . |
| 2 | So she plays in the backyard . ’ |
| 3 | In retrospect , perhaps we played on the heart-strings of our listeners too heavily , but it was , in actual fact , a hearty , healthy exercise in a good cause for the ‘ benefit ’ of the community , and in defiance of the written and spoken diatribes of a federal political bureaucracy . |
| 4 | Thus you play into the hands of that force which desires your downfall and wishes to hinder your inner progress , leaving you to shut the gate on the prison you have built for yourself , afraid to step out and to try anew to overcome your weaknesses . |
| 5 | Tonight we play to the court . |
| 6 | The people on the pavements were always sprucely dressed , they pushed their prams or followed their dogs at a leisurely , unhurried pace ; the cars purred quietly on the smooth roads ; there was always somebody playing at the Tennis Club . |
| 7 | Another point to hit home was that in those cases where girls are prepared to give up everything to play on the Tour , they might as well do the job properly . |
| 8 | ‘ A week ago I played with the Rectory children . |
| 9 | Then I play with the baby and we might go out for a walk or go and see friends — that sort of thing . |
| 10 | We play on the astroturf at Framlingham College when we can but sometimes we play on the community centre field . |
| 11 | and then he played in the afternoons ! |
| 12 | I use the excellent Marshall bass combo , rated at 30 watts , every Sunday when I play in the music group that leads the worship in Staines Congregational Church . |
| 13 | Brent Todd , the Kiwi prop forward who plays with the Canberra Raiders in Australia , will not appear in his club 's World Club Challenge match against Widnes tonight at Old Trafford . |
| 14 | to the park where she played with the stolen child . |
| 15 | Instead it plays with the ‘ death of reading ’ , for novels have always relied on the reader to bring them to life . |
| 16 | Instead he played off the resentment of the ‘ old court ’ at their humiliations and Charles IV 's frantic appeals that the French should save Godoy from the vengeance of his enemies against Ferdinand 's craving for French backing . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember him , of course , from when he played for the Giants . |
| 18 | A superbly energetic and inventive open-side flanker , he was 21 when he played in the Scarlets which beat the 1972 All Blacks . |
| 19 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 20 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 21 | In an attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli crisis , the Highland Light Infantry sent Docherty to Palestine , where he played for the British Army XI . |
| 22 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 23 | In October 1940 Joe was called into the RAF where he played in the band of Fighter Command with embryo jazz musicians like trumpeter Kenny Baker and reed player Aubrey Franks . |
| 24 | He was engaged by ( Sir ) Herbert Beerbohm Tree [ q.v. ] to act in Australia , where he played in The Eternal City , 1903–5 , and returned to London with 100 parts ready for performance . |
| 25 | Savage , who captained Liverpool schoolboys in 1974/75 , spent six years at Anfield , where he played in the reserves before joining Wrexham on loan . |
| 26 | He sees the month in New Zealand , where he played against the All Blacks in 1985 , not as a final proving ground but as a searching test of known ability and attitudes . |