Example sentences of "[prep] play [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 2 | Closeted in the conference palace at Taif — itself built by a Lebanese-born millionaire — the MPs found themselves unable to exercise their normal function of playing to the gallery . |
| 3 | The piece was played for all its worth , and more , but vulgarity disappeared , the sense of playing to the gallery that dogs the piece . |
| 4 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 5 | In 1801 he published a valuable pedagogical work , Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte . |
| 6 | The Bishop of Peterborough in his diocesan magazine warned of the dangers of playing with the occult and the unknown . |
| 7 | Some people are accused of playing with the problem . |
| 8 | The decade saw the emergence of three European women professionals capable of playing with the world 's best and , better yet , two of them proving it . |
| 9 | Both of these will already be present in the patch to some degree , but if you want more reverb , for instance , this is simply a case of playing with the reverb ‘ level ’ and ‘ time ’ controls . |
| 10 | ‘ There are 11 players who can not wait to get this game started and as soon as those Scotland jerseys are pulled over our heads the dream of playing against the world champions will give way to proving individual worth , ’ said Robertson . |
| 11 | YEOVIL TOWN captain Mark Shail was heartbroken last night over the rash moment which may cost him the chance of playing in the dream FA Cup tie against Arsenal . |
| 12 | The Aston Villa midfielder has been troubled by a hamstring injury which saw him miss three FA Carling Premiership games but is confident of playing in the Group Three qualifier tomorrow . |
| 13 | He is expected to play again in January , specialists having approved his return to training , but is unwilling to turn out too soon , as he did against Steaua after surgery , for fear of jeopardising his chances of playing in the World Cup . |
| 14 | David Lawrence is putting his feet up … after the trials of test cricket in New Zealand … and after the shattering knee injury that dashed his hopes of playing in the World Cup . |
| 15 | Mozart was particularly angered when on one particular occasion he was prevented from playing to the emperor and was thereby deprived of a fee equal to half his annual salary . |
| 16 | Two years ago they were banned from playing at the city 's leisure centre because the council said they would ’ offend the morals ’ of local women . |
| 17 | Imran Khan , Pakistan 's captain , has hinted a nagging shoulder injury might prevent him from playing throughout the World Cup winners ' tour of England this summer . |
| 18 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 19 | And it is the latter that preoccupies her in Playing in The Dark , a slim , supple volume of three essays exploring ‘ whiteness and the literary imagination ’ . |
| 20 | In Playing in The Dark , it is whiteness that ironically becomes the hidden , the nether world . |
| 21 | When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified . |
| 22 | Capriati , who won the junior French and US Open titles this year , admits she is ‘ excited but anxious ’ about playing on the tour . |
| 23 | That 's excellent , so what about playing for the country , good chance ? |
| 24 | Flautist Tim Wheater , well known for playing with the group The Eurythmics , suffered an outbreak of lip blisters and ulcers which destroyed his ability to control the flute , and lost him a year 's income . |
| 25 | ‘ As far as I was concerned he was just a big fella who used to come out of the shop and bellow at us for playing against the wall . |
| 26 | Unlikely , but he could amuse himself by playing with the idea . |
| 27 | And the army of companies , seeking to relieve angler and fishkeeper alike of their hard-earned , tap up both by playing on the twin human weaknesses of snobbery and one-upmanship . |
| 28 | At the same time he was busy courting his supporters amongst the Country Tories by playing on the theme of the " Church in Danger " , and his strategy appears to have been to unite the various dissident Tories behind him in order to oust Oxford from power , and then try to ensure that Tory political dominance was so unchallengeable that when George I became King he would be forced to work with them . |
| 29 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 30 | England 's players had a lazy rest day today , many of them reporting that they felt drained by playing in the heat and humidity of the first three days . |