Example sentences of "[noun sg] and play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also a member of the XL Club and played for the local Lloyds Bank XI . |
| 2 | So too was Maud , the daughter of Holroyd Smith , who later recalled that auspicious day she rode on the top deck of car 5 after the opening ceremony and played with the chain of ‘ a very jolly Mayor ’ who sat next to her . |
| 3 | We see Absolon submit to nature once more , when despite his reported courtly wakefulness in his desire for Alison ( 3373 ) , he decides upon a couple of hours ' nap before his waking and playing on the fateful night ( 3685 – 6 ) . |
| 4 | The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way . |
| 5 | He then went to South Africa with the FA summer touring side and played for the national team in one of the representative games . |
| 6 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 7 | I was situated immediately behind the cameraman , being at the organ and playing for the service . |
| 8 | They run round the back and played with the puppets . |
| 9 | A key text is his early essay , ‘ Structure , Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ’ , which concludes that there are two possible interpretations of interpretation : ‘ The one seeks to decipher , dreams of deciphering a truth or an origin which escapes play and the order of the sign , and which lives the necessity of interpretation as an exile . |
| 10 | But I still had doubts about giving up my job at Lloyds insurance firm , so for another year ( they were yearly contracts then ) I was allowed to keep the job , training two nights a week and playing in the reserves . |
| 11 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 12 | The local bands have not been altogether ousted ; some were taking part in the contests after playing and walking in a procession in the morning and playing at the sports in the afternoon . |
| 13 | This was a minor tournament and played at the YMCA in Baghdad . |
| 14 | The elder informed my colleague that they were not lost , but had been told by their parents to stay in the store and play on the escalators while they went to a cafe for a coffee . |
| 15 | Jan was making a comeback this season and played in the curtain-raiser to the Currie Cup Final . |
| 16 | And , after the star visited the clinic and played with the pet on the floor , she was allowed to have it . |
| 17 | I sat on the floor and played with the children . |
| 18 | Such agents will therefore affect the learning process even though they are not directly part of it , in the same way as the tone or volume controls on a tape recorder affect the recording and playing of the tape even though they are not directly part of the message the tape carries . |
| 19 | Waqar , who was almost lost to Surrey after administrative dithering , has been advised by Imran to quit daily cricket and play in the leagues instead . |
| 20 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 21 | Nowadays players stick their front leg down the wicket and play with the bat behind their pad . |
| 22 | Late ‘ 76 saw Linda in this country with an excellent show and playing with the same guitarists that had appeared on the album . |
| 23 | Frank 's son Andy is in the current United squad and played in the Rotherham defeat . |
| 24 | He may long to skip an afternoon 's school and play on the swings instead , but the thought of disapproving parents weighs more heavily than the thought of a couple of hours ' fun . |
| 25 | It sounds crazy to say I had n't noticed it before , as we must have driven by ten or a dozen times , but you really do n't notice that much when you 're trying to keep your balance and play at the same time . |
| 26 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |