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 | 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 ? |
| 5 | He played mostly for the reserves , he was paid cash , it was said , while drawing the dole . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | " We played right through the season . " |
| 9 | SunSoft Inc has reportedly restructured its discount schedule which originally played only to the larger Sparc cloners . |
| 10 | They played only in the morning , to put themselves six or eight hours away from a place by dark . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The fact that so many of them played together for the Lions will be an important help . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Played all over the place ai n't he ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the season just ended Ulster played once under the Ravenhill lights . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |
| 24 | Dirty children played fearlessly on the doorstep , and nobody ever opened the door to drive them away . |
| 25 | The writer has also heard chords played similarly on the trombone . |
| 26 | Our arrangement needs no explanation , but the simplification of the double-bass part ( a very ordinary orchestral procedure ) , the use of the low notes of the clarinet , and the combination of reiterated notes on the violas with the same notes played legato by the bassoons should be noted . |
| 27 | What made this situation peculiarly problematic for primary teachers was their sense that the firm stance on good practice taken by the Authority 's advisory staff was inseparable from the part they played both in the formal processes of promotion and appointment and in the many informal and subtle ways whereby individual teachers were encouraged and advanced — or discouraged and held back . |
| 28 | In the report which played mainly on the results of the trade union studies information unit survey the survey was only taken shortly after we had commenced the new education system therefore the figures are not necessarily reflected today . |
| 29 | Ipswich played mainly on the break . |
| 30 | Some women did embroidery , while ragged children played noisily around the skirts of easygoing mothers and grandmothers . |