Example sentences of "who played the " in BNC.

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1 Pepper , Cissy , Dorothy , who played the comic char , the Stage Manager Bob , his Assistant and callboy Johnny , all popped out of their various rooms like gophers from their burrows to gather and shout .
2 Even the lighter stories tended to be along the lines of parrots who played the commodities market .
3 Lionel Stander , who played the heavy in innumerable films , stormed on unstoppably at ‘ informers , stool pigeons and psychopaths who come here beating their breasts and saying ‘ Please , I want absolution , get me back into pictures , '' ’ until the hearing was hastily adjourned .
4 In 1988 Eyre directed various Chekhov pieces under the title of The Sneeze at the Aldwych , and that same year he again joined forces with Alec Guinness , who played the tired cynical pessimist Botvinnik in Lee Blessing 's A Walk in the Woods at the Comedy Theatre .
5 As a change from wet feet and sightseeing I was smuggled into an English-language class where we drank home-made slivovitz and one of the students , a lugubrious-looking individual called Miroslav who played the bassoon in the Moravia Philharmonic Orchestra , invited me to a concert the following evening .
6 My predecessor , who played the double-bass , had been appointed in 1935 , and I was only the third headmaster to hold office since the death of Queen Victoria .
7 Grace , who played the piano herself , writes ,
8 To Jerry and me they were the Housten Sisters ( who played the theatres at this period ) .
9 Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist .
10 That fat kid from the Double Deckers who played the tuba and made it look the size of a bag of crisps … what is he up to now ?
11 Matthew Cooper , for example , got there on only one game , a 23-points feast against Ireland at Athletic Park , and at the expense of his older brother Greg who played the four earlier tests and who had long prospered in Mains ' Otago side .
12 William Wellman , who directed Beau Geste in 1939 , said of Brian Donlevy , who played the sadistic sergeant in that film , ‘ I 've never seen a guy that could completely get everybody to dislike him as he could . ’
13 However , Lois Maxwell , who played the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny , says , ‘ Diana and I had lunch together and after eating some shrimps she realized how much garlic there had been in them .
14 Steve Whitton , who played the final 18 minutes in Saturday 's FA Premier League 4–3 defeat at Southampton , is named together with defender Eddie Youds who stayed on the subs bench .
15 Judge Crawford earned his nickname because he looks like Tyrone Power , the star who played the swashbuckling swordsman in the movie classic The Mark Of Zorro .
16 Dublin was the focal point of a Cambridge side who played the ball long , got it forward quickly and were condemned for their tactics .
17 You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ .
18 The process of revision continued at rehearsals , which began in February 1939 according to Michael Redgrave , who played the central role , Eliot kept his head buried in his text throughout them : he still seemed ill at ease with actors , although responsive to their demands .
19 The Edfu inscriptions and scenes are a religious drama , which as acted each year outside the temple by its staff , who played the roles and chorus before a crowd of spectators .
20 Neddy was an old Dales character who played the harmonium and who found an old bell one day which he placed on top of his harmonium because he liked the sound of it .
21 Goff thought none looked fully relaxed or wholly free of shyness or worry , even though it was really Minton , who played the grand seigneur , who was racked by doubts , anxieties and self-pity .
22 The latter figure allows for those who played the market : those who , having bought shares as a result of one or more privatizations , sold them in order to realize a quick capital gain .
23 And she would turn for confirmation to Reginald Forrest , who played the comic characters or heavy villains and whose deep voice could often be heard singing , falsetto , some of the women 's songs .
24 But who played the flute ?
25 When he married her , she was a reserved , very plain girl who played the harp in a provincial symphony orchestra .
26 The English king — ( An exchange of headgear creates the ENGLISH KING from the remaining player — that is , the PLAYER who played the original murdered king . )
27 His face , to be sure , is not built for mirth : framed by luxuriant , shoulder-length black hair , his chubbyish cheeks curve round into a pinched mouth which makes him resemble Roshan Seth , the Indian actor who played the hero 's vodka-sodden father in My Beautiful Laundrette .
28 Against this background some of the most influential artists , those who redefined and ‘ endangered ’ the male-dominated Serbian art scene , include Nadezda Petrovic , who played the most decisive role in the formation of modern painting : Olga Jevric , who was one of the most influential sculptors after the second world war ; and Marina Abramovic , definitely the best known conceptual artists from Yugoslavia .
29 An old gentleman from Stowmarket , his name 's Mr I 'm sure it was because er , you see , my father and I used to go up Stowmarket Road sometimes after church or chapel and er and go for a walk up there and used to meet this Mr who played the organ Stowmarket and very course but erm but I had a wonderful life really
30 ‘ Years later , ’ recalled Sherrin , ‘ he told me ruefully that he envied David Hemmings , then still a boy soprano , who played the child lead .
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