Example sentences of "he [vb past] played a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the ultimate war , the final confrontation between Good and Evil , and he had played a major part in the war . |
| 2 | Before he retired in 1939 he had played a key role in the establishment of archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge . |
| 3 | He had played a successful hand under Æthelred , and maintained his position in the fighting of 1015 – 16 , but Cnut , perhaps with the encouragement of his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton , who retained some sort of recognised position even after his marriage to Emma of Normandy , and whose father Eadric had overthrown , clearly decided that he was too powerful and dangerous to be tolerated further . |
| 4 | As Secretary of the Manchester branch of the Association of Teachers of German , he had played a prominent role in attracting the Goethe Institute to Manchester . |
| 5 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |