Example sentences of "play with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I played with the idea that I was Messiah … ’ |
| 2 | In the last hour of play , however , he played with great accuracy to keep the Dutch grandmaster at bay . |
| 3 | While Timman played with impressive composure , Speelman seemed oddly distracted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Camb looked compassionately at the quivering febrile mouth and the long unfiled nails that played with those rings . |
| 6 | She played with such warmth . ’ |
| 7 | King Crimson was being partied by a signing label and they got up and played with Donovan . |
| 8 | Mick Ronson : ‘ It was a really exciting period then because Tony DeFries got involved , which was about maybe a year and a half after I first played with David . |
| 9 | She had told him a tale , looking slyly at him while she played with his left hand . |
| 10 | I ai n't never played with a proper doll before . |
| 11 | There was a game she played with me when I was a very little girl which roused in me a discomfort I identify now as irritation . |
| 12 | Mary Ann played with girlish competitiveness , winning every game except one . |
| 13 | ‘ We never played with a full deck ’ , complained Clair George . |
| 14 | The first time I played with him we were doing Don Juan . |
| 15 | It was the full Wagner orchestra , with full sonority , but played with real subtlety and the full range of dynamic levels . |
| 16 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 17 | The idea of writing it , Mariana says , struck her ‘ a few days after that wonderful ‘ love doubles ’ in London , when I played with Bjorn against Chris Evert and her husband , John Lloyd . ’ |
| 18 | As at Tottenham last Wednesday , West Ham played with the look of men resigned to their fate — only more so . |
| 19 | ‘ I played with your father , ’ said the four-times champion by way of introduction to the young man whose dad , Guy , was an accomplished professional . |
| 20 | Forget Lloyd George : Arnold Palmer played with my father . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't often associate the word passion with us , ’ said Luton 's manager , David Pleat , afterwards , ‘ but I thought we played with a lot of passion in the first half . ’ |
| 22 | He played with his children and then suggested that she go to the nearby Windmill Inn for some beer , as travelling had parched his throat . |
| 23 | Evans played with a pencil as he leaned over his desk , staring at Morgan , who stared back with a bleak expression . |
| 24 | We did n't intend to have a five-piece group so we played with Craig and , in the meantime , Andy returned and we 'd gotten on so well with him that we decided to continue as a five-piece … |
| 25 | Rourke , Gannon and Joyce played with The Fall 's Brix Smith , as The Adult Net , performing a one-off gig at London 's ICA . |
| 26 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 27 | Johnny Miller played with us for the last two days . |
| 28 | The next two rounds we played with Hale Irwin , who was leading the tournament . |
| 29 | Sandy played with Watson in the third round , and Tom played so bad he convinced himself he would n't win . |
| 30 | Sandy shot a 71 , though , and that left him tied for the lead with David Graham , who we played with , of course , for the third round . |