Example sentences of "play [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too . |
| 2 | ‘ I know I have seen three plays already in the magnificent splendour of the Opera House . |
| 3 | A small smile plays teasingly around the corners of my mouth and I ask , ‘ Do you have jobs ? ’ |
| 4 | We did a production of The Caretaker , which I designed , directed and in which I played on for the characters . ’ |
| 5 | Wearing the briefest of briefs , red-faced Joe played on until the referee , Mr Jones , very kindly removed his own shorts and lent them to Storey . |
| 6 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 7 | He played mostly for the reserves , he was paid cash , it was said , while drawing the dole . |
| 8 | Liz Boatman , who played professionally in the States before being reinstated as an amateur , captains the side for a second time and is delighted at the way the growth of the pro circuit has revitalised the amateur game . |
| 9 | And then there 's the way that Steve played right on the on-beat , in contrast to the rhythm section , which always fell way back behind the beat — that 's part of the reason it all worked so well . ’ |
| 10 | " We played right through the season . " |
| 11 | SunSoft Inc has reportedly restructured its discount schedule which originally played only to the larger Sparc cloners . |
| 12 | They played only in the morning , to put themselves six or eight hours away from a place by dark . |
| 13 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 14 | Hopkins played nicely to the crowds too , although it was hard to figure out if it was conscious manipulation or the unconscious product of his enthusiasm . |
| 15 | Yet he recorded that , when his elder brother died in a skating accident at the age of thirteen , James and his sister , Maggie , played together under the table on which the coffin was lying . |
| 16 | The fact that so many of them played together for the Lions will be an important help . ’ |
| 17 | Washing blew on most garden lines , and a number of toddlers played together in the road , jumping in a big puddle to the detriment of their clothes and their obvious delight . |
| 18 | They played together in the final round of the 1991 Open at Royal Birkdale and the great American quickly spotted the potential of the 6ft 4in Walker Cup player . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know where my next penny is coming from , I really do n't , ’ she would breathe in her flat , light voice , as she sat hunched on the river bank , too hapless for despair , while our children played together among the drifting garbage at the water 's edge . |
| 20 | Played all over the place ai n't he ? |
| 21 | A sigh broke from her throat as the taxi turned into the courtyard of the villa and the fountain played coolly in the sweltering heat . |
| 22 | In the season just ended Ulster played once under the Ravenhill lights . |
| 23 | A large band played faultlessly behind the heroes , the hits just kept on coming , and Johnny Cash stole the show with some country harmonica on an encore of Orange Blossom Special that huffed and puffed like a steam engine on a frosty morning . |
| 24 | The Tories not only kept batting Labour back and forth between these untenable positions , but played directly on the historic fears of Labour regressing to its old habits . |
| 25 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |
| 26 | Dirty children played fearlessly on the doorstep , and nobody ever opened the door to drive them away . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , West Indies dominated these , winning seventeen of the first twenty-two played up to the end of 1985–6 . |
| 28 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |
| 29 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 30 | Here there were some more beautiful flower arrangements and the band of the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry The Royal Yeomanry played up in the gallery during luncheon . |