Example sentences of "play [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New signing Ryan Cross will fill the problem position of right back , even though he also plays as a central defender . |
| 2 | He had appeared in only five stage plays as a professional adult when he was called to Stratford-upon-Avon to play a full season of major Shakespearian roles . |
| 3 | She plays as a middle hitter . |
| 4 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 5 | The idea behind playing chords such as those in figs 2–5 as double stops is that they are each played as a separate fingering . |
| 6 | United director Bobby Charlton , looking resplendant in his United Blazer with a very attractive rosette pinned to the front ( and his distinctive side parting above the ear & ‘ sweepover ’ hairdo ) was his usual uncontroversial self , unlike his elder brother who has at least got a personality ( and played for a decent football club ) |
| 7 | Last night he played for a hand-picked team of personal friends against the national side after recent appearances to help out injury-hit Bayern Munich . |
| 8 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |
| 9 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 10 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
| 11 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
| 12 | ‘ We never played with a full deck ’ , complained Clair George . |
| 13 | He played with a rubber washer that came drifting by , trying to make it spin around in the air in front of his nose . |
| 14 | I ai n't never played with a proper doll before . |
| 15 | Mind you , Moscato played with a sprained elbow for virtually the entire game and we often packed down with only seven men . |
| 16 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 17 | ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago . |
| 18 | He played in a 3–0 Liverpool Senior Cup win over Liverpool at Prenton Park in February 1992 , after being recommended to Rovers by Ian St John 's son . |
| 19 | He played in a 3–0 Liverpool Senior Cup win over Liverpool at Prenton Park in February 1992 , after being recommended to Rovers by Ian St John 's son . |
| 20 | On February 8 he played in a remarkable game of cricket on the ice on Little London Dam in Sheffield . |
| 21 | In fact , the glances they managed to exchange , glances which played on a wide keyboard of reactions , served both to spin them together and to show each other off . |
| 22 | Of course it 's a great challenge , but you can end up losing your own personality , because you 've got to ‘ be ’ somebody else if you 're playing these old songs , or maybe just following someone else who played on a particular album … ’ |
| 23 | He ( Anderson ) played on a sexual stereotype , saying she was young , black , ‘ the best sex he had ever had ’ — anything that could be used as an excuse . ’ |
| 24 | We played on a different part |
| 25 | I think it was the impetus of them getting promoted and the enthusiasm the er then the next home match was against Newcastle which Walsall played to a packed house . |
| 26 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 27 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 28 | And er we played at a high tempo and we passed it and really dominated the rest of the game but our finishing could have been better . |
| 29 | Pity it plays like a dented tin can , really . |
| 30 | An A.D.X. long iron plays like a short iron from a traditional set of clubs . |