Example sentences of "cast him as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many of Voight 's films have cast him as a none-too-bright but likeable hunk . |
| 3 | Had she cast him as the villain in her private emotional tangles ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 're casting him as a woman . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 9 | The reasoning behind casting him as the father in The Hooded Owl became clearer by the minute . |