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Example sentences for "would play"

  • To sit staring at those fixed glazed eyes in silence, for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.

  • Illustration: To sit staring at those fixed glazed eyes in silence, for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.

  • I played football during the fall and during this period of time we would play, we played in the bowl games, and the squadron went down to the Philippines, and I stayed in Japan.

  • You see, the only relationship we had after this fight I told you about, was when I would be downtown and stop in, and we would play pool or play darts, but I don't remember participating in any events with Lee at school.

  • And he would sit and play, and we would maybe play--usually we played 1 game a day, and sometimes we would play 4 to 8 hours, playing chess.

  • Noon or eve or morning dewsome With a little maid I know I would play a quiet "twosome"!

  • Soon after beginning my work with Brahms, I asked him at the end of my lesson if he would play to me, telling him I did so by Frau Schumann's desire.

  • He would play a new composition by one or other of his Detmold friends at sight in a transposed key without a mistake, taking it at any interval suggested, and thinking nothing of the feat.

  • He would play by heart one or two of the preludes and fugues from the 'Well-tempered Clavier,' then take up the music and continue from book as the humour took him.

  • I told him we only played for amusement; that I had no design upon his money; and that, if he pleased, I would play him a single game for his four pistoles.

  • He at first objected to play, from modesty, but the Baronne had determined he should, and she told him that, if he would play a game, Morphy would sing a duo with him afterwards.

  • Black would simply wait until the Pawn has advanced to h6 and then he would play P-g6 so that White's own Pawn would block the h-file for the Rook.

  • He would play (3) Q-g4 threatening to win Black's Queen by the discovered check Ktxe6.

  • When he had to give a piano lesson he would set his pupil a symphony of Beethoven which he would play as a duet with her.

  • Then he would play it again on the piano.

  • He decided that he would play no more, or as badly as possible, and would discourage his father.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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