Example sentences of "his [noun pl] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many of his compositions play with the merging of foreground , middle-distance and background details into one overlapping pattern . |
| 5 | 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 . |