Example sentences of "and played a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On leaving she joined the Repertory Company at Worthing and played a great deal on the repertory circuit . |
| 2 | By the time he was 16 , The Montreal Herald was reporting the great success of his four-act play Esther , which he had written and produced ( and played a leading part in ) — shades here of his precocious grandson ! |
| 3 | I always put it off and played a lot of sport at high school instead , until I hurt my knee really badly . |
| 4 | In a corner of the car park , against a wall , a foreign-looking man exhibited clumsy oil paintings on pieces of wood and played a banjo , his hat on the ground . |
| 5 | In 1939 Morgan went to France at OC2 Air Formation Signals and played a key role in organising telecommunications between the French and British forces : for this he was appointed CBE . |
| 6 | Her background as a social worker helped when she intervened in the child abuse row and played a key role in drawing up new guidelines on how the social services should handle future cases . |
| 7 | McEwan Younger was a familiar figure in Edinburgh and played a full part in its commercial life , as a director of the British Linen Bank and Scottish Television , and as chairman of Second Scottish Investment Trust . |
| 8 | Blake , or Behar , returned to Holland at the start of the war in 1939 and played a minor part in the Dutch resistance . |
| 9 | The Brownes and their descendants lived here for many years and played a prominent part in the life of the village . |
| 10 | He was also very active on the economic front and played a prominent part in killing off a proposal to float sterling in 1952 . |
| 11 | The famous bull Terling Marthus , with plenty of American blood in his ancestry , was imported from South Africa and played a major role in continuing the British breed 's development . |
| 12 | Wee Jocky was apparently steaming after a particularly hospitable Hogmanay and played a blinder . |
| 13 | Wilfred Innerd was a Geordie who joined the Palace at the club 's inception in 1905 and played a major part in its establishment . |
| 14 | made what was to be the last club trip out of Britain for many years when they travelled to Dublin , and played a football match on Easter Monday . |
| 15 | Julian ( 4.5 ) and David ( 4.2 ) stood them up and played a game with them as rockets going up to the sky . |
| 16 | Maybe if they took a chance and played a song that was over three minutes long , the audience 's attention span would grow . ’ |
| 17 | He topped the poll for the shadow cabinet elections and played a leading role in the policy review process . |
| 18 | ‘ Your contribution at the Foreign Office , especially during the British Presidency ( of the European Community ) , has been immense and played a considerable part in the outcome at Edinburgh last week . ’ |
| 19 | Friends say American-born Jill was homesick and played a large factor in the move . |
| 20 | They came with nothing to lose and played a very relaxed game . |
| 21 | Involvement of the teachers : In successful schools , the teachers were involved in curriculum planning and played a major role in developing their own curriculum guidelines . |
| 22 | After spending all morning talking to clients on the telephone , in place of lunch I nipped up to the golf club and played a few holes with one of the assistants . |
| 23 | Aymer de Valence was therefore cousin to Edward II and played a prominent part in his reign as a defender of the monarchy ( see plate 2.3 ) . |
| 24 | She was netball captain and played a creditable game of tennis . |
| 25 | But if religious beliefs have provided presupposition , sanction , even motivation for science ; if they have regulated discussions of method and played a selective role in the evaluation of rival theories , the possibility of a more wide-ranging , and I hope rewarding , inquiry opens up . |
| 26 | And then Otto went indoors to the piano and played a few bars of Debussy to illustrate a musical idea . |
| 27 | But a number of able scholars , most of them of liberal sympathies , were drawn into western academic life and played a leading role in guiding western research . |
| 28 | Albert Einstein was largely responsible for the first , was entirely responsible for the second , and played a major role in the development of the third . |
| 29 | Marsh 's book had considerable influence and played a role in stimulating the US government to set up a Forestry Commission to manage the nation 's resources . |
| 30 | I decided to have a year off myself and played a bare minimum to remind myself of which end of the club to hold . |