Example sentences of "play as well [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win .
2 Between them come Stravinsky 's Dumbarton Oaks concerto and Frank Martin 's Petite Symphonie Concertante , a work that grows in stature with every hearing , especially when conducted and played as well as it is here .
3 Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes .
4 We played as well as we 've played all season last weekend and a match like this is the best way to end our league season , ’ said coach Tommy Dowens .
5 In fact , Yorkshire have some good players and if Tendulkar plays as well as he can , he will provide extra runs at a lively tempo , so giving Martyn Moxon more chances to be in control of the game .
6 If Jason Peake can regularly play as well as he did on his debut on loan from Filbert Street on Saturday , Pool need to sign him quickly .
7 Actually they do do n't play as well as they used to .
8 What I 've told the players is we 've got to go up and play as well as we can to beat a team like Blackburn .
9 erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football .
10 McManus , who now faces Thailand 's James Wattana in tomorrow 's semi-final , said : ‘ If I play as well as I did against Stephen , there 's no reason why I ca n't go on to win .
11 If we play as well as that I do n't see why we ca n't finish them off .
12 Piaget , however , asserts in the introduction to his work that ‘ We shall rather show that the acquisition of language is itself subordinated to the workings of a symbolic function which can be seen in the development of imitation and play as well as in that of verbal mechanisms ’ ( 1962 : 1–2 ; see Vygotsky 1978 for a contrary view ) .
13 ‘ I will be more than happy if we play as well as we did against Stockport County , providing we get a little luck .
14 They play a very defensive style and we 're gon na need to go down there an open the game up and play as well as we can .
15 ‘ He has another season-and-a-half on his contract , and if he 's playing as well as he is now , we will definitely sit down and talk about a new deal .
16 Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season .
17 Ever since Cuntona joined scum , all of a sudden he s a class player — despite still not playing as well as he did for Leeds .
18 At the moment Ian is playing as well as he has ever played in my time at Carrow Road . ’
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