Sentence examples for playing on somebody from inspiring English sources

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Madonna's "Like a Virgin" is playing on somebody's radio above the whine of polishers, grinders and several dozen people in blue jeans and flannel shirts yelling back and forth.

Photo of the Integrity DVD playing on somebody's TV by Alan Crapstain  .

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I cannot remember a note of it, but there was a time, I suspect, when you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing it being played on somebody's violin.

"Looking at it for the first time, you might think it was public art and wouldn't necessarily know that it was built for playing on or around until somebody started swinging on it like a monkey".

"On the other hand, he's playing for somebody else now, and that will cause some people to react differently".

It's nice because I'm playing for somebody else.

As I walked past somebody's room, I heard this piece playing on a record player.

Some songs I might play for somebody in a hospital on my guitar.

I mean, I was on clay, playing against somebody who had beaten me on six previous occasions, and having struggled in my previous match".

"I always played for somebody.

It is unbelievable that somebody would play on people's emotions like that".

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