Example sentences of "he [vb past] the role " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1953 he created the role of the Earl of Essex in Gloriana . |
| 2 | He played the role of gnarled old pro rather well . |
| 3 | He played the role of a kind of intellectual version of Levi-Strauss ’ bricoleur . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He compared the role of voluntary organisations for the physically and mentally handicapped in Britain , the United States , the Netherlands and Israel . |
| 8 | David Lloyd George had returned to the Liberal fold in 1923 and accepted his position as second in the Party to Asquith until he assumed the role of leader in October 1926 . |
| 9 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 10 | But yesterday he acknowledged the role of teachers . |
| 11 | But yesterday he acknowledged the role of teachers . |
| 12 | Still , it was as well not to close off any possibility of future splash , so he stood there , in his immaculate green blazer and flannels , his tie neatly knotted , his profile presented most becomingly to Mr and Mrs Channing , as he acted the role of head boy in some long-forgotten boys ' book by Talbot Baines Reed or Annesley Vachell . |
| 13 | Then he landed the role of Sparky in John Arden 's Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ( produced in London seven years previously in 1959 ) for Peter Cook 's company at the Theater-de-Lys in Christopher Street , Greenwich Village . |
| 14 | He landed the role of Buddy Baker , the shy younger son of a New York Jewish family who turns into a playboy . |
| 15 | He emphasised the role of the peasants as a revolutionary force : ‘ The rising of the colonial peasantry is imminent . ’ |
| 16 | Neisser ( 1982 ) also argued that it was not necessary to propose a separate memory system for flashbulb memories , he suggested that rehearsal was the most important component of the phenomenon , noting particularly that such memories are not necessarily veridical , instead he emphasised the role such memories may play as a connection between personal and public history . |
| 17 | Re-evaluation of McKeown 's data shows that if anything he under-estimated the role of the nineteenth century public health reforms in improving both mortality and morbidity ( Sretzer 1988 ) and today public health medicine is starting to win the argument about how new health gains can be made . |
| 18 | But if Constantine ignored Jesus , he certainly acknowledged the principle of Messiahship — in fact , he not only acknowledged it , he took the role of the Anointed One upon himself . |
| 19 | Among other things , he stressed the role of the railways in unifying the country , advocating state responsibility for these , and state protection for nascent industries from the tyranny of English free trade . |
| 20 | Last month he combined the roles of coach and captain on behalf of the Barbarians who lost 22-10 to the All Blacks at Twickenham . |
| 21 | Melanie was again surprised at the quick , alert sympathy of the dog , how he combined the roles of guard dog and four-legged comforter . |
| 22 | Going back to his Aussie roots , he remembered the role Semillon played down there , but good Semillon is virtually non-existent in California . |
| 23 | Later he praised the role of the British in India as a civilizing force ; Indian poverty was the result of excessive breeding . |
| 24 | — he refused the role — |
| 25 | Durkheim took for granted the existence of nation states ; indeed he emphasized the role of the state as the ‘ organ of moral discipline ’ , and the importance of national education as a moral education of the young generation , preparing them for their future tasks in the collective life of the nation . |
| 26 | There is no insistence from management that a certain proportion of tickets be given every shift , so his behaviour was more a result of the way that he defined the role of neighbourhood policemen as having crime control responsibilities . |
| 27 | He considered the role of the Council members as delegates to be suggestive of agency , but concluded that agency was defeated by the literal wording of the contracts which were entered into by the third parties in the following terms : |
| 28 | During the course of dissections of cadaver club feet he recognized the role of muscles and tendons rather than bones in this deformity . |
| 29 | To the degree that religion and morality assisted that end he tolerated the role of Johnson . |