Example sentences of "cast [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 2 | He cast himself as a chairman in the new consensus which is in part a return to the old style of consensus in British politics . |
| 3 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 4 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 5 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 6 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 7 | In 98.6 , Sukenick briefly casts himself as an improvising comic on the explicit model of Lenny Bruce and Milton Berle . |
| 8 | Flip through the wacky but informative manual ( which casts you as a movie director ) and you 'll find that the first three programs let you construct 20-frame icon-sized movies . |
| 9 | Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc . |
| 10 | We do — quite practically and with useful influence — if we choose to cast ourselves as a vigorous , amending , debating part of the European team . |
| 11 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 12 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 13 | Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore . |
| 14 | Many of Voight 's films have cast him as a none-too-bright but likeable hunk . |
| 15 | Had she cast him as the villain in her private emotional tangles ? |
| 16 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 17 | Why did she cast herself as a resourceful ‘ maid ’ ? |
| 18 | She had misunderstood the subtleties of their relationship and cast him as an ineffectual married man , always complaining of his wife , always on the chat-up , but never getting any further than that . |
| 19 | The bulk of Wayne 's greatest films , from The Searchers ( 1953 ) through The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1963 ) to The Shootist ( 1975 ) , cast him as the Ringo Kid grown old and useless , vanishing at the fade-out into desert obscurity , drunken oblivion or cancerous death . |
| 20 | Casting itself as a tiny company imperilled by a giant shark , BSDI makes much of the fact that USL has not sued the University nor has it stopped the University from distributing the software . |
| 21 | They 're casting him as a woman . |
| 22 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 23 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 24 | The reasoning behind casting him as the father in The Hooded Owl became clearer by the minute . |
| 25 | The people who conceived this film and the people who applaud it take certain masochistic fascination in casting themselves as the martyrs , poor innocents slaughtered by barbarians . ’ |