Example sentences of "play with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She played with the choices during the remaining days allowed her , knowing in her heart that she would be forced to take the safe path into the civil service .
2 Melanie played with the taps in the sink to hide her embarrassed pleasure .
3 She played with the children in their street when they had the time which was n't often and with diplomatic children , a cosmopolitan lot , like mine , only that Constanza was gang-leader .
4 I sat on the floor and played with the children .
5 Andy worked mainly in the shop , but also had a chance to play with the Hunts as well as with other famous players of the 1970s such as Doug McLelland , John Garner and Peter Dawson .
6 It does not take into account that in a group of nursery children each will be happy to play with the others ' toys until stopped by peer group pressure .
7 Back on the country roads there was more time to play with the switches , and wonder how we might stop the heated seats giving us sticky shirts ( no luck , though Swedish efficiency doubtless means that this was our fault ) .
8 He says that when he was small , his grandfather used to tell him about little people who came out at night to play with the toys . ’
9 Paul shouts angrily and loudly at smaller children who want to play with the toys he is using .
10 Jan Aage says it 's an education for him and he 's got top learn how to play with the boys
11 Curtis Strange has described addressing the second shot as like preparing to play with the feet on separate steps of a staircase .
12 The initial experience for any child is just to play with the pieces to familiarise himself with them all and this often takes the form of picture and pattern making — similar to the early use of the other structured apparatus .
13 I was allowed to play with the greasepaints and I can still smell that ginger wig with its clammy net under the coarse hair .
14 We encourage people to play with the cosmetics , feel what they 're like on their skin , and we do n't try to sell them anything .
15 ‘ We encourage people to play with the cosmetics , feel what they 're like on their skin , and we do n't try to sell them anything ’
16 " We think you 're too old , " Quentin said , " to play with the twins , Timothy . "
17 Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant .
18 ‘ This seems to be the continuance of this obscene game which the IRA wish to play with the police , ’ he said .
19 They were nevertheless encouraged to play with the children of other service families , instructed to be polite to these less fortunate beings and discouraged from arrogance .
20 No time to play with the children , no time to take the dog for a walk or to try their hand at painting , boating or simply thoughtfully chewing a straw .
21 Mother was almost always at home , ready to play with the children , or to read to them .
22 But it 's tr it 's true in most , if you do clinical medicine erm er ophthalmic optics you do n't get to play with the patients until quite a way on , and most of them do n't even get a chance to observe for a lot of it .
23 When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy .
24 We sat down , I on the arm-chair , he on the floor at my feet : He held one of my hands and played with the fingers .
25 Station officer Peter Smith of West Bromwich Fire Station said : ‘ We believe the puppy chewed through a box of matches , played with the matches and caused friction which started the fire .
26 They run round the back and played with the puppets .
27 There is even a game played with the expectations aroused by dreams of the ‘ new ’ South Africa .
28 He rebuked a young Miles Davis for his dress sense , played with the greats , and recorded some classic albums .
29 I said , like the child who had played with the dolls and bears , ‘ Syl would bring me breakfast in bed , only his mother would n't let him . ’
30 Once more the ball is played with the hands forward , delofting the club .
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