Example sentences of "was play [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Evita , in which he was to play Che Guevara , has bounced from studio to studio and remains up in the air because of casting and budget disagreements . ) |
| 2 | Charles was to play tennis with Ann and she was to let him know when she was feeling upset . |
| 3 | Shaw 's infatuation with the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell , who was to play Eliza , clearly found its way into the script , giving Pygmalion a powerful undercurrent of sexuality , despite all the playwright 's blustering attempts to deny it . |
| 4 | Roseanne star John Goodman , who was to play Fred Flintstone , has pulled out because of other commitments . |
| 5 | The only way you would get on television was to play songs in English , ’ said Kagona . |
| 6 | The place , then , a most unlikely nursery for one who was to play Hamlet at the Old Vic , Arthur in Camelot , both of them a record number of times on Broadway , a man who was to understand claret and enjoy meetings of several kinds with several princesses . |
| 7 | Whilst cricket was played onlookers would sit along the bank at Petts Field with picnic baskets and with gramophones playing . |
| 8 | He was playing music of some kind , it was hard to hear for the din . |
| 9 | and he was playing computer with me and I meant to come up to you . |
| 10 | And I was supposed to phone my dad to tell him what time I was playing racquet . |
| 11 | Then to Polly , who was playing Dorothy : ‘ Dearie , run after him . |
| 12 | And just , she was playing ball in other words was n't she ? |
| 13 | Widnes coach Phil Larder said : ‘ Julian was playing darts with a young lad in his digs but one went through his finger . ’ |
| 14 | Lillie , Lillie , we was playing darts on Monday , came out from the ladies toilets ' and said You ought to see that skirting board , it 's all coming away and rotting . |
| 15 | By the age of 10 she was playing whist , and two years later , while holidaying with an uncle in the Netherlands , she picked up bridge . |
| 16 | Zach was playing Bob Cratchit , Mr Fezziwig , the ghost of Christmas present and the Ghost of what might be . |
| 17 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 18 | I think he was playing centre back — he looked more like a midfield player and certainly LOOKED like a McAllister type … elegant-ish . |
| 19 | Yeah , he dropped , he was playing kitchen table he dropped it , luckily it just caught the bottom of his eye |
| 20 | While Ludovico was playing tennis , she sat on the balcony and wrote Nora a letter . |
| 21 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 22 | ‘ My brother was the one who was playing guitar first , ’ he told me , ‘ so I was kind of influenced by him originally . ’ |
| 23 | Craig McLachlan could be very easily dismissed as just another soap star turned muso , but Craig was playing guitar in bands long before he became an actor . |
| 24 | His long hair was tied back in a scarf and he was playing guitar to a whistling song . |
| 25 | ‘ But I only stuck that for a couple of weeks , ’ he says , ‘ for I was playing guitar at a party one night in Cleveland , Ohio , and he said there were easier ways of making money out there than working the building sites . |
| 26 | Jon , 35 , was playing detective again at a London club in readiness for his return to The Bill as Mike Dashwood . |
| 27 | So while Nicholas Lyndhurst was playing Rodney ‘ the plonker ’ in Only Fools And Horses , Andrew was on stage in Richard III or playing Osric in Hamlet and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet . |
| 28 | I was playing loads of rave music , and at the end they were begging us not to go off because it was the first time they 'd ever heard it properly . |
| 29 | I said tell mum to watch it , but she 's , I said what do you think , she said well , actor who was playing Bernie was good . |
| 30 | She was playing Mrs Darling and she and Hook were never on stage together . |