Example sentences of "cast [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He cast me in the role of a sort of footballing Dick Whittington , and took down the vases from the mantelpiece to represent my stepping-stones to fame , ’ Bastin recalls . |
| 2 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gaston VII of Béarn thus cast himself in the role of his daughter 's protector against the territorial ambitions of Edward 's seneschal , which were soon to lead to Grilly 's dismissal from his post . |
| 5 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 6 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
| 7 | Aenarion deflected the pulsing energy with his shield but the power of the daemon 's attack cast him from the saddle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Where Federman and Sukenick have stressed the specifically linguistic dimensions to such disruption , Robbins once again casts himself in the role of entertainer , trickster and comic commentator . |
| 10 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
| 11 | She runs away but it bears down and casts her to the ground . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT . |
| 14 | At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death . |
| 15 | Hard to steer , to balance , to float , she had learned instead to consent ; to cast herself onto the wind and learn the whole length and depth and height of its strength , and in perfect relaxation , the stern corseting of gravity left far below , her whole body had been open to power and loveliness . |
| 16 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 17 | Had it been Alex Household who had been shot , the situation would have been different , because she so patently disapproved of him , but with Michael Banks as the victim , it was difficult to cast her in the role of murderer . |
| 18 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In one of the novels of Albert Camus an unfortunate man is walking at night on the banks of the Seine when a suicide , having cast himself upon the waters , cries for help . |
| 22 | Had she cast him as the villain in her private emotional tangles ? |
| 23 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 24 | It was in 1984 , when Kylie was still only 16 , that her next big break came and it was again Alan Hardy , the man who had cast her in The Sullivans three years before , who was involved . |
| 25 | It was Iris , throwing doubts on Rick 's guilt , who had cast her in the role of the devil 's advocate . |
| 26 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 27 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Finally , in desperation , Aenarion offered himself , saying he would cast himself into the sacred fire if Asuryan would only save his people . |
| 30 | 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 . |