Example sentences of "playing [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the very up-market Pâtisserie , a very down-market haberdashers which had n't changed since the 1930s , and the priest playing boules with a friend in front of the church . |
| 2 | She sighed erotically in his ear , as the tips of his fingers explored between her mature quim-lips to run the whole length of her crack as if he were playing scales on a piano . |
| 3 | At the age of 14 he left school to tour America , singing and playing guitar with a band . |
| 4 | His long hair was tied back in a scarf and he was playing guitar to a whistling song . |
| 5 | ‘ But I only stuck that for a couple of weeks , ’ he says , ‘ for I was playing guitar at a party one night in Cleveland , Ohio , and he said there were easier ways of making money out there than working the building sites . |
| 6 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 7 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've no taste for playing gooseberry to a couple of lovebirds , I assure you . |
| 9 | Another elderly woman in Sheffield who occasionally spends her afternoons playing dominoes in a community centre , where we met , says she 's never had her own money . |
| 10 | Perched between the road and the sea , between sun and cloud , some boys are playing football in a prairie blaze of light . |
| 11 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 12 | Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty , that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape . |
| 13 | the game is a bit like playing tennis without a racket ( can you keep it quiet , please ! ) . |
| 14 | ‘ The older ones are shown the very sobering ‘ Robbie ’ — a gory film about children playing chicken across a railway line . |
| 15 | She waited to see if he would explain anything about himself , but he simply sipped his cold beer in silence , idly watching a group of children playing see-saw with a plank of wood over a tree stump . |
| 16 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |
| 17 | There were alcoves with armchairs — two men playing draughts at a table — women with handbags , visitors I suppose , sitting with cups of coffee and talking to men . |
| 18 | The window was full of magazines , lying edge to edge and hanging in yellowed cellophane wrappers from clothes-pegs : she was reminded of playing shop as a child , and lining up the tins of food and boxes of soap flakes and bags of flour , all in miniature . |
| 19 | Since one-day cricket does not count as first-class stuff — quite rightly , in the view of growling conservatives — there are no longer enough playing days for a man to pile up those 3,000 runs or those 200 wickets . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd have no qualms about playing Eddie as a striker for 90 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He might just have been another guitar player who ended up playing back-up for a lot of people , which was what he was doing in America . ’ |
| 22 | ON SUNDAY , February 3 , United are playing Liverpool in a league fixture at Old Trafford . |
| 23 | Her father went to work and her mother went out playing bingo in a town eight miles away . |
| 24 | Appropriately we discussed his halcyon days on the eve of the Edgbaston Test when Sussex were playing Warwickshire in a Championship match at Hove . |
| 25 | Four people were playing bridge on a blanket spread over one end of the table . |
| 26 | To celebrate , he treated his playing partners to a round of a different kind in the Mid Brae Inn afterwards . |
| 27 | And when they banned me from playing cricket for a month , they actually did me a favour . |
| 28 | They were asked about playing music from a trailer , about dancing in a circle , about the quarry on their land . |
| 29 | One Over the Eight starts next Monday … there 's still a few tickets left … well worth a night out … we could have some real sporting drama at the Manor ground tomorrow afternoon with Oxford playing Newcastle in a relegation battle … |
| 30 | It 's playing host to a squadron of Harrier jump jets on a military excercise . |