• Too much emphasis is placed on solitary activities such as playing video games or watching television.
• As such, the games were quite fun to play, despite their rather basic gameplay.
• They also played board games like checkers, chess, and dominoes.

• My children don't play with guns, but at lunchtime some were playing at shooting each other.
• As a child, she had played at being a gun-toting cowgirl.
• It is like little boys and girls playing doctors and nurses.

• So that she could play at being a countrywoman at Versailles, Louis XV provided her with a hermitage comprising a pavilion, a menagerie, a pasture, dairy and kitchen garden.
• I mean, they were just playing at it before, but now they're completely serious.
• Lemar doesn't actually seem to know they're just playing at being in love with each other.

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• No-one would exploit real people and play with their emotions and date them just for a piece of art.
• Do you think I've just been playing with your emotions this last fortnight?
• She should have known that Eddie was just playing with her heart like everyone else he flirted with.

• Her salad was whisked away and she moved onto playing with the noodles in her pasta.
• Cable tidies will help prevent children from tripping over cables and playing with them.
• Sarah plays with her food with her fork, picking out the chocolate chips and making a pile of them at the side of her plate.

• When five executives left Royal Bank Development Capital last summer, seasoned observers wondered what they were playing at.
• Then she got angry with the men, asking what they thought they were playing at and all that.
• Interrupting a sentimental ditty, he asked them what they thought they were playing at.

• Omagh were forced to play three championship matches in eight days in October.
• Yet it was difficult not to feel sorry for Latvia, playing their first match in a major tournament.
• In the end the match was played amid a torrential downpour, plus thunder and lightning.

• In the Test matches, we are playing the second-ranked team in the world so that's very difficult in itself.
• It is never easy playing a team that is fighting relegation and has had two bad results on the spin.
• We may just get a bit tense, and that comes down to inexperience, playing the best team in the world.

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• Now, because they have seen how I play for the national team, they have a new respect for British football.
• It obviously did the trick, because I became a regular in the first team and went on to play for England.
• The ultimate goal is to play for Scotland, but there are lots of things before that.

• Steven Gerrard plays a long ball from left to right, which Luis Garcia fails to control properly and immediately gives away.
• Trezeguet is caught marginally offside as Henry plays the ball through to him.
• Emre plays a cross-field ball from left to right.

• They were invited to bat and scored six for 187, a seemingly fair target on a wicket that was playing well.
• The wicket wasn't playing that easily, but he knew which shots worked for him on that wicket and was able to adapt his game to that.

• Whether England manager Clive Woodward plays him at full-back, on the wing or even at centre on Saturday, he is a certain starter.
• Woodward, desperate to get the best out of him, has played him in four positions.
• He was played in the wrong position and did not do too well, but as soon as he moved up front he has got better and better.

• Somebody always has to play the role of banker as well as playing their own piece.
• If you expose the queen of spades, then the first time that someone leads a spade you are not allowed to play the queen if you have other spades.
• If you have the Ace of trump, you are guaranteed to win the trick you play that in.

• Another important factor in playing the lottery is to play within your means.
• I don't play the lotto and I avoid gambling at all costs.
• The money people spend playing the lottery keeps some of these taxes from going up.

• In The Silver Fleet, she plays opposite another star of the London stage, Ralph Richardson.
• He has also played in Irish language productions at the Abbey Theatre.
• Taylor might as well have been playing opposite a wooden Indian for all the response she got from him.

• The Rolling Stones played their debut concert at the Marquee club in London in 1962.
• Not only is he alive, but he's healthy, just short of 60 and still playing packed-out concerts.
• Jools Holland is playing an open-air concert near Tunbridge Wells soon.

• Reynolds plays the Green Room Sunday night and the Railway Club on Wednesday.
• He was sheer magic at Garter Lane on his previous visit and should not be missed when he plays the Theatre Royal.
• The brilliant Backbeat Beatles play the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth on Monday.

• A cynic would say that people enjoy playing the victim and jumping on the grief bandwagon, they enjoy the attention and the sympathy.
• As a young girl, Cora had always enjoyed playing the nurse for her brother or her cousins.
• She stood in the corner playing the shy bride in her long red bridal dress.

• She plays him for a fool, often feigning helplessness just to see what lengths he will go to in order to prove his love for her.
• A councillor has accused a brewery of playing Bexley Council for a mug over a pub's opening hours.
• Are you just playing Rob for a sucker, Amber?

• As well as playing the flute Rosie plays the piano, violin, guitar and sings.
• She has taught herself to play rhythm guitar and also plays piano and violin.
• Franz learnt to play the piano and the violin from his father and brothers, and later the viola.

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• The concertmaster played a note on his violin and Lev tuned his instrument to it.
• Inconspicuously, a three piece ensemble plays background music.
• The best pieces of American Jazz music will be played and performed on stage.

• And a third of adults use digital, satellite and cable TV to play the new radio stations.
• By 9 pm, I had watched a dvd and played some records, and I was ready for something else.
• Write in to any radio stations you know of and demand that they play this record.

• We then walked in silence to the studio, where the last record was still playing.
• He leaves the front door slightly ajar to hear the early Dylan and Stones records playing from inside.
• He pauses to savour the Kylie Minogue song playing over the bar sound system.

• Brother James, would you play the girls in please?
• The procession then moved on the Town Hall to be played in by a pianist performing the ‘Uist Tramping Song’.

• The garden was beautiful, plants and shrubs tumbling around a vibrant lawn in the centre of which a fountain tinkled and played.
• In the centre of the lush garden, an elaborate marble fountain played, spraying sparkling jewels of water into the air.
• The lawns are mown, the box hedge parterres are neatly clipped and the central fountain plays gently in the sunshine.

• Teach kids to respect the cat, and do not allow them to chase or corner the cat even in play.
• Gordy and Stevie were fighting, but Rhiannon knew it was only in play.

• Today, we have got used to watching almost constant attacking play.
• There was zest and quick movement to United's play despite spells of control by Rangers.
• The first half was close with neither side gaining dominance in any area of play.

• He walks off the pitch to get treatment, Nigeria kick the ball out of play so he can come back on.
• Prop Howard Carr kicked a penalty into touch and the ball bounced back into play after hitting a tree.
• The ball goes out of play and he gets to his feet with the air about him of a man who'd settle for a corner.

• The Corsa comes with electric power steering, which only comes into play when needed.
• This is where personal campaigning by influential people here comes into play.
• It is only when more than two teams finish level on points and they have all beaten one another that run rate comes into play.

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• But Woodson is getting more chances to make big plays in the passing game this season.
• He is strong enough to play off blocks and make plays in the running game and agile enough to be an asset in coverage.
• At moments in a game great plays are needed, no matter what the defense, and the superstar shifts gears.

• A gentleman complained to Talleyrand of having been insulted by a charge of cheating at play.

• It also recognises the fact that the free play of markets creates problems for society.

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