Example sentences of "was play the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years , record company wisdom suggested that Pierce Turner 's best route to mass appeal was to play the US college circuit . |
| 2 | In a letter to Leopold he described how he was kept waiting in an icy antechamber for half an hour by the Duchesse de Chabot , to whom he was to play the clavier : when he did play , the assembled company completely ignored him , and continued to sketch . |
| 3 | When he arrived in Italy with Anne and the children , Germi informed him that he was to play the role in English , to be dubbed later into Italian . |
| 4 | In October 1961 Macmillan appointed him to the newly invented office of chief secretary to the Treasury , whose unenviable task was to play the role of Scrooge towards popular proposals for public expenditure . |
| 5 | In this case it was to play the symphony as Shostakovich might have imagined it in his dreams . |
| 6 | Russ Tamblyn appeared in cowboy boots and a fully grown Afro hairdo , and actor Severn Darden , who had just learned his next job was to play the lead in a revival of Dracula , was going around practising vampire attacks on every female member of the cast . |
| 7 | Two years ago it worked out for me whilst I was playing the Greenbelt festival ; Gordon Charlton , CBS 's A&R guy at the time , saw me play there and bought a copy of my album . |
| 8 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 9 | I watched the strange smile on the American woman 's face — like the smile students wore in the movie-house at Toronto when they were watching some particularly syrupy moment from a corny trailer , extorted smiles , full of shame and self-consciousness , but the suppressed emotion sincere enough and shown unguarded in the darkness , except I was playing the voyeur . |
| 10 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 11 | On one of his walks through Murray Park ( now King George VI Park ) he encountered a young Hispanic who was playing the guitar to himself . |
| 12 | No , I was playing the bubble . |
| 13 | Born in Cheshire , he joined a church choir at the age of eight and was playing the cello and piano with youth orchestras before reading history at Oxford . |
| 14 | She was playing the girl in Equus . |
| 15 | Labour was playing the economics of realism and fiscal rectitude . |
| 16 | And then we had the moment that a lot of you er were n't looking forward to which was playing the video back , yes . |
| 17 | Shriver 's recent long term absence from the tour , following shoulder surgery , and her lack of match practice were shown up by an opponent who was playing the women 's game of today , powerful and merciless . |
| 18 | They pretended to be the crew of Dr Xavier Maniguet , who was playing the part of a rich playboy who had chartered the vessel from a French travel agency for a winter cruise in the Pacific . |
| 19 | Perhaps she was playing the part of a small-town librarian but hoping not to be taken too seriously . |
| 20 | He was playing the bastard because that way the inner door opened . |
| 21 | Perhaps that is why one of his major recreations , apart from the reading of detective stories and the novels of P. G. Wodehouse , was playing the card game , patience . |
| 22 | Very small , with a brusque , hectoring manner , his only relaxation was playing the flute , which he had modified in his workshop . |
| 23 | Oxfordshire could n't lose in the National Final at Nottingham on Saturday … number one seed Lizzie Jelfs from Banbury 's West End Club was playing the number two seed Claire Taylor from the Banbury West End Club … |
| 24 | He was playing the mouth organ , a plaintive lament which seemed to say ‘ I 've got those didn't-get-through-my-qualifying-rounds-again blues . ’ |
| 25 | Yorke was playing the role of the wide-eyed confidante . |
| 26 | If he were playing a part , then he was playing the role to perfection . |
| 27 | She was playing the piano on Children 's Hour when the BBC studios opened there in 1956 . |
| 28 | ‘ No ; he was playing the piano when I left . ’ |
| 29 | She was playing the piano and I stood there transfixed , a little kid with a pin through his jersey from the slums . |
| 30 | And they were all relaxing and I was playing the piano and people were all gathered round saying , ‘ You hit it with the poker , and I 'll lock the lid ’ — but somebody came on and said ‘ This girl is marvellous , give her a job . ’ |