Example sentences of "playing the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suspicion is that they are too similar in style and are both playing the same game . |
| 2 | To have to sit in an office all day playing the same records — all of which are awful — over and over and over again — well , it 's not funny , is it ? |
| 3 | Someone else is playing the same game — following him with a series of cars . |
| 4 | As the trio grew up , so the hurts piled up until they were stacked upon them like old 78 records , each playing the same dreary old repetitive tune . |
| 5 | In terms of the role-mapping model of plural reference , we would suppose that the use of and imposes a constraint which specifies the two individuals as playing the same grammatical role . |
| 6 | However , in terms of formulating what happens next ( as required by a continuation study ) , the constraint is soft in that it only raises both the probability of the two characters playing the same role in an elaborated representation . |
| 7 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 8 | The event , sponsored by Sight Savers , Marshall Amplification and Guitarist , aims to beat the world record for the biggest number of guitarists playing the same song non-stop for one hour . |
| 9 | If you get a good riff , double it with another guy playing the same exact thing . |
| 10 | Very often , if you isolate a sound it 's not that good , but with Keith and me playing the same thing , they combine and one complements the other . |
| 11 | It 's OK if you 're playing the same lines over and over again to thicken up the sound but if you 're playing different lines within the song as overdubs I often use different guitars to achieve different effects . ’ |
| 12 | See , the whole trick with Hawaiian music is the mixing of the chords : everybody might be in C , but everybody is tuned differently , so instead of always playing the same damn intervals at the same point on the instrument , you have this wonderful overlap that spreads the feeling of the key out into kind of a pre-'60s sort of an effect . |
| 13 | Her assignment here is as gleeful agent provocateur , playing the same role in the context of the literary establishment that those watchful , silent women play in her own fiction — women who wait out their lives in the house of the enemy , gathering information , biding their time . |
| 14 | Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences . |
| 15 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 16 | Playing the same set as at CBGB 's , there 's less of a crowd reaction in terms of dancing , but they have the crowd spellbound , with Michael jerking his frame back and forth while Andy ends — first by starting ‘ Potato Junkie ’ with the opening chords of ‘ Paranoid ’ and Stiff Little Fingers ' ‘ Alternative Ulster ’ and then by putting his guitar through the ceiling . |
| 17 | He resists playing the same trick twice with Leonard Cohen 's ‘ Hallelujah ’ , but the end result , together with its rainstorm finale , still manages to cast a gaunt and dramatic shadow behind it . |
| 18 | ‘ Tell me which struggling hardware vendor is n't playing the same game ? , ’ he says : ‘ challenge the assumption that you can effectively redeploy all your excess headcount into this catchall . |
| 19 | We 've tracked down erstwhile Uniplex Inc 's president and chief executive officer Jeff Waxman at one of his current haunts , a six-year-old ‘ start-up ’ called Mentalix Inc , where at least on paper he 's playing the same role he did at Uniplex . |
| 20 | Without conceit , he told me : " I 'm a ones and can go on playing the same music for ever . " |
| 21 | Oliver remained in Fagin 's room for many days , picking the marks and names out of the handkerchieves and sometimes playing the same game as before . |
| 22 | The hall was packed with people ; music spilled out from the main hall beyond ; pipes and fiddles , tabors and accordions , guitars and a piano , several of them playing the same tune . |
| 23 | He was gazing into his make-up mirror , playing the same game that he always did on the monitor screens in television studios — in other words , deciding which was his best profile . |
| 24 | As in Musgrave 's theory of the ‘ public household ’ , one can consider the division of functions between different government agencies , and the operation of these agencies as units playing the same role as firms do in the market . |
| 25 | LOOKING back , Offshore Europe 93 may be remembered as the event at which the oil industry and its contractors started playing the same tune . |
| 26 | You know it , and he thinks you 're playing the same one . |
| 27 | He is playing the same game as missionaries who went to Asia to convert the ‘ heathen Chinee ’ and to Africa to redeem the ‘ dark continent ’ from barbarism . |
| 28 | ‘ Michael Crawford takes his induction into the ways of the world with his usual incredulous gape , ’ wrote Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , adding cautiously , ‘ It is a pity to see a young and promising actor always playing the same role , though he is undoubtedly quite good at it . ’ |
| 29 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 30 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |