Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] in the role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 2 | Gaston VII of Béarn thus cast himself in the role of his daughter 's protector against the territorial ambitions of Edward 's seneschal , which were soon to lead to Grilly 's dismissal from his post . |
| 3 | On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy . |
| 4 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 5 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 6 | Denis Healey soon saw himself in the role of bridge-builder between the West German government ( which particularly feared any decline in the credibility of nuclear deterrence ) and McNamara who hoped to avoid the first — or at least the early — use of nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | Annabel saw herself in the role of getting ready to welcome the invalid home . |