Example sentences of "cast [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Had she cast him as the villain in her private emotional tangles ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 14 | The reasoning behind casting him as the father in The Hooded Owl became clearer by the minute . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |