Example sentences of "to perform in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match .
2 It was just enough time , however , for Bill to perform in a way that he usually ( being then only a puppy ) performed on the kitchen floor .
3 The amount of traffic on the route ( see appendix D ) never increased following the improvements at Foxton , so that in an economic sense the lift from the start was required to perform in a situation where it was not needed .
4 There are many clubs and societies within the University which afford students and staff opportunities to perform in every kind of vocal and instrumental music .
5 Fourteen cities around the world are sending teams of young artists to perform in The Ark — designed by bOb ( sic ) van Reeth , the city 's leading architect — during the course of the year .
6 It is surely self-evident that whatever role they might have expected to perform in the family is likely to be changed , by being alienated from their roots .
7 The local musicians who had been brought in to entertain us were not allowed to perform in the guest-house , so we provided our own ( less professional ) entertainment by singing and reciting poetry .
8 Geoff was a sturdy wing-half with a refinement and vision of play which were perhaps a little too sophisticated for the Palace teams of his day , where we were forced to perform in the hurly-burly of the old 3rd Division South , and in the end his career was finished by a nasty knee injury sustained in mid-1952–53 .
9 Yet the choreography is by a Russian who studied among the Spanish peasants and worked out his design with the help of a particular peasant , a natural dancer , whose passion for dance was such that his life ended tragically when he found he was not to perform in the ballet .
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