Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katherine gazed into the fire , the leaping flames , let her eyes play over the fine marble hearth , the painting by George Grosz above it , with its hectic planes , its lurid faces , a satirist 's black view of life in the metropolis . |
| 2 | The poverty of their lives played across the silvered windows like a back-projection in a film , lending perspective and contrast to the satiated self-indulgence of his . |
| 3 | Four second year students , Claire Slaney , Graham Brown , Elaine Hendry and Ben Hall , took time off from their studies to play in the tournament . |
| 4 | She pulled away , surprised eyes sparkling , and let her hands play with the back of my neck : I tasted sweet lipstick . |
| 5 | Robyn watched as his hands moulded and caressed each silken mound , heard the gasp of delight escape from her own lips as his fingers played with the darkened peaks . |
| 6 | His eyes played over the building in front of them — a jumble of towers , crenellations and massive walls with a sagging Rag of St George above the gatehouse picked out in the beam of a spotlight . |
| 7 | Dexter let his eyes play over the clutter designed to bless the pub with a friendly air : two post horns slung like bombs from the ceiling , mock Tudor beams , lines of plates balanced on every available ledge , and a grubby portrait of the Queen hung in dusty splendour above the bar . |
| 8 | Many of his compositions play with the merging of foreground , middle-distance and background details into one overlapping pattern . |
| 9 | This side of the war was not especially popular : opponents of the king and of his ministers played on the fact that a good many MPs felt too much money was spent on German commitments . |
| 10 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |