Example sentences of "play [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New signing Ryan Cross will fill the problem position of right back , even though he also plays as a central defender . |
| 2 | He had appeared in only five stage plays as a professional adult when he was called to Stratford-upon-Avon to play a full season of major Shakespearian roles . |
| 3 | She plays as a middle hitter . |
| 4 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 5 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 6 | Steve Powell , who plays for the away team said : ‘ Obviously , the prison team can only play at home but they are anxious to play more friendly matches . ’ |
| 7 | Even in Italy , where Campese plays for the other Milan club owned by multi-millionaire Silvia Berlusconi — AC Milan having slightly more kudos — Campese can walk around freely . |
| 8 | He plays for the Whitehaven Tennis Club and is involved in their purchase of new tennis courts . |
| 9 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 10 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 11 | Tony , of Scarisbrick Drive , Norris Green , plays for the local East Villa club and team mates joined his father , Michael , in an all-night vigil at Walton Hospital . |
| 12 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 13 | The hyperconscious Double Act in which Svidrigailov 's terminal boredom plays opposite the greedy , theoretical self-assertion of Raskolnikov 's wanting ‘ something more ’ than ‘ mere existence ’ , becomes grounded in suicide and murder ; and the Petersburg where these things happen gains a fuzzy-edged documentary aspect which never comes anywhere near dominating the novel , but which is there . |
| 14 | Home , alone , Jay played through the last time Dionne had come over . |
| 15 | A career that began at Stoke City in 1930 , he played as a professional for more than 30 years . |
| 16 | The idea behind playing chords such as those in figs 2–5 as double stops is that they are each played as a separate fingering . |
| 17 | Also present was Mrs. Blair , mother of Eric Blair ( 1903–1950 ) , alias George Orwell , who also played as a junior , and whose father , a golfer of considerable skill , became Club Secretary in 1912 . |
| 18 | Veterans of the Sunset Strip scene did a double-take when the Whiskey A-Go-Go — where The Doors once played as the in-house band for $500 a week — was restored to its Day-Glo glory after a decade of black paint and chrome fixtures . |
| 19 | It had stepped into a strand of light which played off the darkening face but caught the remnants of the leafy green which swathed the skull , the shoulders and the upper torso . |
| 20 | United director Bobby Charlton , looking resplendant in his United Blazer with a very attractive rosette pinned to the front ( and his distinctive side parting above the ear & ‘ sweepover ’ hairdo ) was his usual uncontroversial self , unlike his elder brother who has at least got a personality ( and played for a decent football club ) |
| 21 | In the RAF he played for a representative Welsh side with a famous senior International , Bleddyn Williams . |
| 22 | Last night he played for a hand-picked team of personal friends against the national side after recent appearances to help out injury-hit Bayern Munich . |
| 23 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |
| 24 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 25 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
| 26 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
| 27 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 28 | In the 1912–13 season Harry was awarded Representative honours , when he played for the Southern League in all three inter-league fixtures against the Football League , the Scottish League and the League of Ireland . |
| 29 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 30 | Ballymena will have the services of former London Irish flanker Gareth White , who played for the Irish Exiles last season , but is now home working in Coleraine . |