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 . |