Example sentences of "[was/were] playing in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the fifty teams taking part in the parade , only eight were playing in the four finals , but there was still the prize for the best-turned-out team to be won . |
| 2 | Captain Ian Smith and Peter Jones were playing in the Scottish Trial ; both have been selected as replacements for the Calcutta Cup . |
| 3 | I guess the fifties was my favourite period for the blues and so the guys that were making records — most of the Chicago people who were playing in the fifties and who are still around — are the ones that I am always interested in playing with . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |
| 5 | It just goes to show how well he 's done , he was playing in the early seventies , but we should win ; what we 've got to do tomorrow is not just win well , but we 've got to pick up those points , we must win . |
| 6 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 7 | It was n't Fairclough — he was playing in the Batty position . |
| 8 | Craig Cook was playing in the back garden of his family 's council home a year ago when the brick wall of a shed collapsed on top of him . |