Example sentences of "play [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anastasia plays Lika in The Promise . |
| 2 | FIVE local girls have been included in the Irish Women 's waterpolo squad that plays Scotland at the Drumchaple pool in Glasgow on October 2 . |
| 3 | ‘ When we played Knebworth during the summer , the band discussed the possibility of doing more dates in England . |
| 4 | While in Stratford she also played Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and Moth in Love 's Labours Lost . |
| 5 | Oh , absolutely yes , I mean erm we played Henley in the league just before Christmas and as Nigel said , we put thirty points on them . |
| 6 | Nor did the players start fighting before the kick-off , as happened when Chile played Brazil in the World Cup . |
| 7 | Jack Warner played Dixon in the film The Blue Lamp in 1949 . |
| 8 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 9 | ‘ We played Linfield off the pitch and deserved to win . |
| 10 | That had been rather pointedly obvious when he played Ferdinand in The Tempest at Stratford in the glorious summer of 1951 : a lightweight romantic figure with no menace or drama about him — Burton was not good . |
| 11 | The previous best for a championship match was 1,650 when Surrey played Lancashire at The Oval in 1990 . |
| 12 | THE traded-options market in London could be about to play Lithuania to the stock exchange 's Russia . |
| 13 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 14 | The North Down side are due to play Cliftonville at the Oval on April 2 — the same night Northern Ireland 's schoolboys face England in a schoolboy international at Castlereagh Park . |
| 15 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 16 | And who could ever forget the row you kicked up the one year you were n't chosen to play Mary in the school nativity play ? ’ |
| 17 | The disappointing slowness of the pitch allowed both openers to play Malcolm off the back foot , and therefore to drive his attempted yorkers . |
| 18 | Sarah plays Cecily in The Importance of Being Ernest . |
| 19 | We er we would have played Tottenham on the night of the Q P R game . |
| 20 | Eileen Derbyshire , who plays Emily in the TV soap , adopted four-legged Emily in a sanctuary at Buxton , Derby . |
| 21 | He plays Jack in The Importance of Being Ernest , Jim , the Gentleman Caller , in The Glass Menagerie and Leonidik in The Promise . |
| 22 | EVEN if the sun sets on the ailing TV show Eldorado , it will be good news for star Buki Armstrong , the beauty who plays Gerry in the sangria soap opera . |
| 23 | There was a time last season when manager Brian McEniff contemplated playing Murray on the edge of the square , but then along came Matt Gallagher and the rest is history . |
| 24 | They play Cardiff in the league . |
| 25 | Billingham who play Blyth in the League Cup semi-final tomorrow night , lost by the same scoreline at home to Former Darlington player Kevin Stonehouse , who left South Bank during the week , scored both goals in the first half . |
| 26 | Please for god 's sake stop playing Fairclough at the back — the defence is a shambles when he 's there — quite honestly I 'm getting pretty pissed off with Wilko — i know we 've had a long unbeaten run and we 're still second and he 's won us the championship etc etc and this is defenitely over reaction to last night but get rid of the fucking bastard and find us someone who 'll pick teams that can beat the Norwich 's and Man Utd7s of the league or we 'll be perenial mid table finishers . |
| 27 | A girl was playing Chopin in the concert room as Erika went into the lounge . |
| 28 | Kev , Does that mean you 'd go for a 3 man central midfield or would play McAllister on the wing . |
| 29 | Her first job was in 1983 with the Leeds Playhouse Company , playing Essie in The Devil 's Disciple by Bernard Shaw . |
| 30 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |