Example sentences of "play [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 ( 16 ) UNLAWFUL ENTRY : Ray Liotta plays the obsessive maniac , who happens to be a cop , terrorising an unsuspecting couple . |
| 2 | After all , the postclassical position recognises that variability in human criminal motivations plays a part in accounting for the prevalence of crimes : it would not be too damaging to the overall position to allow that in some cases it plays the major part ( provided that the exceptions only constitute a tiny proportion of total crime — which would certainly be the case with sexual abuse of children ) . |
| 3 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 4 | He was backed by the grand dame of the series , Ann Charleston , who plays the matriarchal Madge . |
| 5 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 6 | More than any other black member of the House , he plays the racist card . |
| 7 | His wife , Emmanuelle Seigner ( above ) , plays the young dancer Mimi who has a bizarre relationship with middle-aged American writer Oscar ( Peter Coyote ) . |
| 8 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 9 | Actor Bill Waddington , who plays the grumpy pensioner , discovered his new-found status when a letter written in Thai arrived at Granada 's studios in Manchester . |
| 10 | ‘ Dane plays the space-station commander — a figure of authority , but one who 's all too prone to human frailty . |
| 11 | The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess . |
| 12 | Merseyside 's Patricia Routledge plays the divine Mrs B to such comic perfection that the programme reels in more than 13 million viewers a show . |
| 13 | Bruce Alexander thus plays the lycanthropic Ferdinand not as some howling lunatic but as a haunted , guilt-ridden creature . |
| 14 | Guitarist Kendall Jones plays the straight man , articulating Fishbone 's mix-and-match musical philosophy in earnest , common-sense terms while his colleagues lark about with frantic abandon — particularly livewire vocalist Angelo Moore . |
| 15 | Later in the same decade , when British filmmakers had lost their interest in international affairs , the same actor , George Cole , plays the inadequate gang-leader in Too Many Crooks ( 1959 ) , a film whose insights into the cold realities of contemporary marriage derives from the story of a kidnapped wife who plots revenge when her husband shows himself less than interested in paying over her ransom . |
| 16 | The course of Hornblower 's love for the forthright ( and fictional ) sister of the noble Wellesleys , developed through his uneasy , self-tormenting thoughts , plays the central part in the novels demanded by their romantic tone and structure ; in the way the two proud individuals adjust to an intimacy which disturbs their essential need for privacy of character , in Hornblower 's emotional vacillations when in perilous circumstances he meets Mane de Graçay again , his behaviour and musings are consistent with his given character . |
| 17 | IT MAKES little different to the autograph hunters who regularly congregate outside Broadcasting House whether the passing DJ plays the new Jason Donovan single or a session by a bunch of Japanese thrash merchants . |
| 18 | IT MAKES little different to the autograph hunters who regularly congregate outside Broadcasting House whether the passing DJ plays the new Jason Donovan single or a session by a bunch of Japanese thrash merchants . |
| 19 | We always try to help each other , ’ said one of Kylie 's closest cast friends , Ian Smith , who plays the bumbling Harold Bishop in the series . |
| 20 | The show 's makers NBC decided to scrap Cheers when Ted Danson , who plays the leading character barman Sam Malone , announced he was quitting to make movies . |
| 21 | The show 's makers NBC decided to scrap Cheers when Ted Danson , who plays the leading character barman Sam Malone , announced he was quitting to make more movies . |
| 22 | Mathesius ( quoted in Firbas , 1974 : 17 ) compares English and Czech in this respect and concludes that in English , the grammatical principle ( i.e. syntax ) plays the leading role in the hierarchy of word order principles and that ‘ English differs from Czech in being so little susceptible to the requirements of FSP as to frequently disregard them altogether ’ . |
| 23 | What a top bloke — especially in the episode nicked off Star Trek when he plays the evil Brigadier with an eye patch from another dimension . |
| 24 | He plays the evil Dr Arcane , whose daughter loves the Thing , and it is painful to watch so many bad lines falling on untilled soil . |
| 25 | Britain 's Gary Oldman , who plays the evil Count , flashed a jugular-red ribbon and the witty quip : ‘ What a bleedin' night . ’ |
| 26 | Actor Jimmy Nail , who plays the hard-nosed Geordie ‘ tec , was back in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne for only 12 hours when they pounced . |
| 27 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 28 | So long as no one plays the National Anthem , he 'll be fine . |
| 29 | Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton . |
| 30 | The 1st oboe plays the top line in the preceding four bars , and gives place to the 1st clarinet on reaching the aforesaid high F. Note the smooth movement of the horns in the chord-passage , and the introduction of the 2nd clarinet on the low E to complete the harmony at the sixth bar from the end . |