Example sentences of "to play with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 2 | Curtis Strange has described addressing the second shot as like preparing to play with the feet on separate steps of a staircase . |
| 3 | All the adults pronounced the name of Balmoral with a unique excitement ; the cousins were soberly proud of their duty to play with the royal children . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 is possible to play with the distance between the position taken up as a reader and the meaning the text seems to offer . |
| 7 | It is not helpful because it restricts ability to play with the full face of the bat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There 's almost no time left to play with the aircraft — and no need , because the flying program is devised so that getting the feel of this big personal fighter/business aircraft comes naturally . |
| 10 | I tend to play with the wah on the treble setting all the time which gives you an incredibly trebly sound and it 's really hard to make that sound good because it distorts and feeds back all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah , I used to be able to play with the slide at the 12th fret and reach all the way back to hit the top string at the seventh fret with my first finger . |
| 12 | The bridges are lightweight affairs , complete with handrests ; the six saddles are adjustable for intonation , but for height adjustment you 've got to play with the four screw-legs that hold the whole bridge up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was allowed to play with the greasepaints and I can still smell that ginger wig with its clammy net under the coarse hair . |
| 15 | ‘ This seems to be the continuance of this obscene game which the IRA wish to play with the police , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ Can none be found to play with the king but only his brother which hath no wish to play because of sickness ? ’ |
| 17 | Wright has such talent that he can become a much more exciting player than Lineker because he has the added bonus of being able to play with the ball as well as without it . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Paul shouts angrily and loudly at smaller children who want to play with the toys he is using . |
| 20 | Intervention is geared towards improving the parent-child relationship by learning how to play with the child , experiencing happy play sessions together , identifying the child 's good characteristics , planning on increasing certain good behaviour , and using reward techniques . |
| 21 | The latter often stay to play with the new infant , for this is probably the only way they can learn baby care . |
| 22 | Richard and I used to play with the dice at school . |
| 23 | This was not only copper-bottomed security , it was a chance to play with the big numbers and see what happened . |
| 24 | She began to play with the string of amber glass beads round Anna 's neck ( Oxfam Shop , Woodborough ) . |
| 25 | Balbinder was 3 years old when I first started visiting the house , a very sociable child who eagerly awaited my arrival and the chance to play with the bag of toys I always brought with me . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Mother was almost always at home , ready to play with the children , or to read to them . |
| 30 | Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image . |