Example sentences of "[be] play [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roodepoort of Hyperama 's car park is an arena — there are others , if you know where to look — in which are played out the sad , savage realities of modern South Africa . |
| 2 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 3 | But Courier is playing down the fourth-round confrontation at Flushing Meadow , insisting : ‘ I see it as my next match — and every match is a new challenge . |
| 4 | The motor industry , says Mr Rhys , is playing out the wider battle between the dirigistes of continental Europe , and Britain 's free-marketeers . |
| 5 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |