Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the role " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got the role in Neighbours soon after I finished High School . |
| 2 | Dacourt praised my prompt heroic action and I played the role of the modest hero , gulping his wine and giving shrewd assessments of the strategy of the attackers . |
| 3 | I had , until I took the role of the Guild secretary , I , I as I say , I think I would have gone on to being politically , erm but I felt I could n't do both . |
| 4 | She renounced the role of tragic widow with an austerity that irritated her would-be saviours . |
| 5 | In 1905 she was appointed a member of the royal commission on the poor laws , where she defended the role of organized private charity against the bureaucratic socialism of Mrs Beatrice Webb [ q.v. ] ; she is believed to have drafted many sections of the majority report . |
| 6 | Over 20 years passed before she recorded the role ( for the German Electrola label ) with her fellow countryman Nicolai Gedda as Max . |
| 7 | Er , although Shirley , she took over the ro , erm , she took the role half way through of down on the floor splitting things up things over , er , the rest of them were cutting out words and what have you , and writing out the script the way they wanted it , and she just stuck them on the floor , , and they changed the script , so in that respect she was |
| 8 | I asked her what she thought the role of solidarity is now . |
| 9 | At Britten 's insistence she sang the role of Ellen Orford in that premiere , which proved to be the watershed of her post-war career with the English Opera Group . |
| 10 | And she outlined the role of an artist 's companion as she saw it . |
| 11 | Maria inclined her head , a sharply mocking smile curving her mouth as she assessed the role she was to occupy in his life . |
| 12 | Therefore , we evaluated the role of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy in a consecutive series of patients referred to our gastroenterology department with bile duct injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |
| 13 | In one group discussion we explored the role of women further . |
| 14 | In 2 we examined the role of cohesive devices in creating coherence , but we also looked at their limitations . |
| 15 | In Chapter 3 we examined the role that formal rules may play in bureaucratic organisations . |
| 16 | Thus we examined the role of ICAM-1 int he IFN-γ induced vulnerability of target cells . |
| 17 | In 1989 , we examined the roles of Fr Patrick Ryan and others in the funding and the arming of the IRA . |
| 18 | We investigated the role of acetaldehyde in causing respiratory distress in subjects with impaired hepatic acetaldehyde dehydrogenase activity or receiving treatment with disulfiram by giving alcohol to guinea pigs . |
| 19 | At the same time we explained the role of one EC institution , the European Monetary Cooperation Fund , in administering the snake and then the EMS arrangements . |
| 20 | They redefined the role of the business head to that of CEO with control over all of his or her resources . |
| 21 | But in any case , Schopenhauer 's terms of reference were such that the poet-composer could never properly comply with them , for the simple reason that they reduced the role of the word in a musical context to nothing more than a necessary evil . |
| 22 | They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated . |
| 23 | They defined the role of a Palestinian autonomous authority or administrative council in controlling health , education , justice and transport . |
| 24 | In 1953 he created the role of the Earl of Essex in Gloriana . |
| 25 | He played the role of gnarled old pro rather well . |
| 26 | He played the role of a kind of intellectual version of Levi-Strauss ’ bricoleur . |
| 27 | He played the role of bodyguard more visibly than any of his predecessors , to such an extent that Minton began to complain his sex life was ruined . |
| 28 | His connection with Mozart , which he seems to have exaggerated in later life , may have amounted to no more than that they were both Freemasons and involved with Schikaneder 's theatre company and that he played the role of a slave in The Magic Flute . |
| 29 | In the end , he adopted the role of ‘ cockney writer ’ , a role which was genuine , and which showed the boys that Corrigan was interested in them for themselves . |
| 30 | He compared the role of voluntary organisations for the physically and mentally handicapped in Britain , the United States , the Netherlands and Israel . |