Example sentences of "[is] play [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . |
| 2 | Posters on the walls invited customers to ‘ All night trips ’ , and Indian music is played gently in the background . |
| 3 | The Octet Scherzo is played beautifully in the revised scoring for full orchestra . |
| 4 | This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's played extensively in the Football League and I ca n't see him encountering any difficulty with the game over here . ’ |
| 6 | A big , bright Red Admiral butterfly is playing serenely around the New FADS ' merchandise stall . |
| 7 | It is claimed that one of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's songs is playing somewhere in the world every minute of the day . |
| 8 | Thelonius Monk 's ruminative ‘ Alone in San Francisco ’ is playing softly in the background . |
| 9 | I 'm taking the Cortina , the clutch is playing up on the Renault . |
| 10 | This panto is playing strictly by the rules . |
| 11 | Charles 's earliest memory is playing quietly on the floor with a train set while his mother sat sobbing on the edge of the bed , his father smiling weakly at him in a forlorn attempt to reassure his son that everything was all right . |