Example sentences of "was play out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1930s witnessed the emerging confrontation with Fascism in Europe , a struggle which was played out on the battlefields of Spain from 1936 to 1939 . |
| 2 | Katell was fighting a cold and her show was played out against the distracting backdrop of a surreal domestic theatre set . |
| 3 | In appearance , it looks like a stage set for drama — and indeed it has always been just that , whether in historic times , when the drama of John Knox and Mary , Queen of Scots , was played out in the streets , or today , when Schiller 's Mary Stuart , or Donizetti 's or Thea Musgrave 's operas about the ill-fated queen , may be staged at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 4 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 5 | the cuistot , ravitailleur , or homme-soupe , as the ration parties were variously called , in that it was played out in the solitariness of night . |
| 6 | A band was playing out on the huge terrace and one or two couples were lazily dancing . |