Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunes changed for Douglas Reyburn golf team when the inter company Buchanan Trophy was played on the 23rd June at Belleisle Golf Course , Ayr . |
| 2 | If the original stroke was played from the teeing ground , the ball may be re- teed . |
| 3 | Pansy was playing on the rug in front of a small fire and Willie sat surrounded by his toy animals . |
| 4 | THE Grand Final of the Fruit of the Loom £1,000 quiz was played in the Lough Swilly Yacht Club in Fahan last Friday night . |
| 5 | No part of the tape of the interview was played to the jury but a full transcript was exhibited and read to them . |
| 6 | That tape was played to the jury . |
| 7 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 8 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 9 | On that day , his boss was playing in the Canon European Masters , returning a score of 73 . |
| 10 | A report of the day states , " December the 20th 1892 a novel football match was played between Halling and Snodland , the match was played during the evening under artificial lights , the lights were three Wells lights lent by Mr H. Anderson , more than 300 people assembled to watch the match " . |
| 11 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 12 | In 1985 a match was played between the Society and the Club for the first time . |
| 13 | ALAN DAVIES is reportedly keen to repeat the experiment of last September when a ‘ warm-up ’ match was played against the French on a balmy September evening at a floodlit Arms park . |
| 14 | He went into Haymarket itself , where he was amused to see that A Woman of No Importance was playing at the Theatre Royal . |
| 15 | The heroine was played by the Czech actress Anny Ondra ( 15 and 15a ) . |
| 16 | Les Phillips running the show in mid-field , Steve Foster defending stoutly at the back and the front runners always giving Spurs problems especially when the ball was played over the top . |
| 17 | Amanda , 24 , said : ‘ When my wedding video was played at the reception I just wanted to hide . |
| 18 | When we attended film shows in the RAF the National Anthem was played before the picture , accompanied by film footage of the Queen riding side saddle down Horse Guards Parade . |
| 19 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 20 | Suppose , however , that the game was played between the same two opponents ten times . |
| 21 | Their first league game was played at the beginning of September , at the Glenpatrick Road pitch . |
| 22 | Winning team captain Mike Kemp says : ‘ It was all good fun and every game was played in the right spirit . |
| 23 | In those days the game was played amongst the 15 provincial unions which constituted the former SARB in a spirit inspired by the International Board . |
| 24 | ‘ Lonely This Christmas ’ by Mud was playing of the radio and I was swinging my body from side to side in time to the music in order to pass the time . |
| 25 | And throughout , the leading role was played by the Bolsheviks . |
| 26 | Chapman 's appreciation of individual strengths and weaknesses meant that each man was played in the position that best suited and developed his talents . |
| 27 | Leslie Phillips played a psychiatrist and the part of the headmaster was played by the popular radio comedian Ted Ray — making his only ‘ Carry On ’ picture ( he would have made more , but Associated British who had him under contract but had never used him , refused to allow him to make them ) . |
| 28 | A prominent part in this agitation was played by the Poor Law Guardians of Poplar through public statements by its leading Labour Guardians , George Lansbury and Will Crooks ( both prominent Labour politicians ) . |
| 29 | Sir Robert Maclean Cup , a singles knockout competition was played throughout the season and was won by David McLeod . |
| 30 | Ignorance was to play into the hands of the enemy ; knowledge through education was power : |