Example sentences of "and play at " in BNC.

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1 When we had no pennies to spend , we would stand against his window , and play at ‘ guessing ’ .
2 In the early 1780s Viennese society had not yet been drained of financial resources by the long and debilitating war against the Turks , and every aristocrat of note supported some kind of musical establishment , offering a performer such as Mozart plenty of opportunity to give concerts and play at salons .
3 It sounds crazy to say I had n't noticed it before , as we must have driven by ten or a dozen times , but you really do n't notice that much when you 're trying to keep your balance and play at the same time .
4 His Journal records his disgust with the " savage ignorance and wickedness " of the Newcastle colliers who assembled on Sundays to " dance , fight , curse and swear and play at chuck-ball , span-farthing , or whatever came next to hand " .
5 you know , I would have come over here and come and play at giving you a beating or something like that .
6 We go round and play at his house .
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