Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] to play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimpey Homes sponsored the group to play at the Cheddar Folk Festival and May Fair . |
| 2 | Andy worked mainly in the shop , but also had a chance to play with the Hunts as well as with other famous players of the 1970s such as Doug McLelland , John Garner and Peter Dawson . |
| 3 | And all those toiling thousands had a part to play in the decision to protect the hill . |
| 4 | Previous patterns of working , sets of beliefs about parents and their willingness and capacity to play a larger part in decisions about their children with special educational needs , professional uncertainty and paternalism all had a part to play in the process . |
| 5 | Even doing the housework with Aunt Margaret satisfied her ; she had a part to play in the running of the home . |
| 6 | Cecil Parkinson told Sue MacGregor that he no longer had a part to play in the affairs of the Tory Party . |
| 7 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 8 | ‘ It is customary to wish good luck to new enterprises but , in this case , I am sure that the team worked very hard to make sure that luck had no part to play in the implementation and so the good wishes would have been redundant , ’ said Alan . |
| 9 | Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) . |
| 10 | Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard said the councils had no role to play in the 1990s and the time had come to abolish them . |
| 11 | One , Danny Blanchflower , called us together and told us he wanted the team to play like the great one-touch Spurs side of the 60s . |