Example sentences of "play [pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does the rhythm fit with what the poet is saying , it plays its own central part in creating the mood and meaning of the poem . |
| 2 | It was very , very close , the difference was two or three big points , he just played them that little bit better . ’ |
| 3 | I played my own small part in formulating Labour Party policy in this area . |
| 4 | IT 'S well over a decade since the B-52s played their only Scottish show at Tiffany 's discotheque , Edinburgh . |
| 5 | It is reassuring to know that Gallacher was one of the players chosen to represent Scotland when the national team played its first overseas international against France in May 1930 . |
| 6 | The first was The Army Game in which Hartnell played his traditional hard-nut part as Sergeant-Major Bullimore . |
| 7 | But he was close on 34 when , in 1951 , he played his first full season for Surrey under M R Barton . |
| 8 | Owers played his first full game for three months in the derby win over Middlesbrough and then gave boss Malcolm Crosby a welcome cup final headache . |
| 9 | Ronald Colman , who became universally well known as a film actor in the 1920s and 1930s , played his first acting rolls in the Bedford Park Club . |
| 10 | At the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's historic debut in the Metropolitan Opera House on 9 October 1949 , with Fonteyn dancing The Sleeping Beauty , John played his customary small role as one of the four marquesses in the hunting scene ( Kenneth MacMillan was another of them ) . |
| 11 | Ironside played his last away game for Scarborough at Maidstone in May and comes into a side with just one win in eight games . |
| 12 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 13 | As Third World capitalism develops , the working class is destined to play its classic revolutionary role . |
| 14 | But with the Paris Angels due to play their first Irish show soon , is he not worried that ‘ Scope 's sleeve ( depicting a cross ) might cause offence ? |
| 15 | But with the Paris Angels due to play their first Irish show soon , is he not worried that ‘ Scope 's sleeve ( depicting a cross ) might cause offence ? |
| 16 | Companies have shouldered too much debt , to play their own financial games or to avoid being taken over ; the balance of risk and reward has become skewed ; the ethics of advisers and intermediaries have come into question ; the market has departed from good sense and sound financial principles , and has passed , with Alice , into a looking-glass world in which words , prices and obligations mean only what people claim they mean , nothing more . |
| 17 | I 'm not going on with the lecture if they 're going to play their childish little games in here . ’ |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Tottenham welcome back winger Darren Anderton , who is set to play his first full game after a hernia operation injury for Tottenham against Arsenal . |
| 19 | Creaney , brought up on legends of the Lisbon Lions side who won the European Cup before he was born , is due to play his first full match in Europe when Celtic take on Cologne in the UEFA Cup first round first leg in Germany this week . |
| 20 | Alain Penaud — encouraged to play his own individual game . |
| 21 | Having played his last major card without success , de Gaulle 's strategy seemed to lose coherence . |
| 22 | BILLY BRAGG plays his annual New Year shows with THE RED STARS at London 's Hackney Empire on December 29 , 30 and 31 . |
| 23 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 24 | Gary Mabbutt , last season 's skipper , plays his first full game after three summer operations in a friendly against West Ham this morning . |
| 25 | In it , Humphries plays his outrageous Australian creation , Dame Edna Everage , and Prince Charles kept slapping his knees with merriment and rocking with laughter . |
| 26 | Tim Robbins plays his Subterranean Homesick dues in Bob Roberts |
| 27 | The attempt to entice six male sperm whales out of Scapa Flow by playing them some fruity dialogue recorded at a whales ' hen night off the Azores has so far failed . |
| 28 | Naas Botha and his team play their first international in England since 1969 — and it could be their last in a long while . |
| 29 | We are talking here about 20-year-old Alison McGrandles , who will be in the vital pivot berth as Scotland 's women play their first international — against Ireland at Raeburn Place , Edinburgh , tomorrow ( 2pm ) . |
| 30 | ENGLAND will create a little bit of history on Saturday when they play their first indoor international on grass grown thousands of miles away . |