Example sentences of "was play [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) . |
| 2 | Indeed , it could well have been the death of Archbishop Deusdedit in July 664 which rendered it essential for Oswiu , faced by the resurgence of Mercian power under Wulfhere , to establish his Catholic orthodoxy at Whitby if he was to play a part in finding a replacement for Deusdedit . |
| 3 | When The Fall played Leeds , part of their rider was to play a football match so all these young lads from the area turned up to take the piss . |
| 4 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 5 | For many years , record company wisdom suggested that Pierce Turner 's best route to mass appeal was to play the US college circuit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this case it was to play the symphony as Shostakovich might have imagined it in his dreams . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We 've already mentioned that the British National Anthem was played a lot at one time . |
| 12 | Being nobbut a sprog , I remember wondering why bassist Bruce was playing a guitar . |
| 13 | ‘ But Olechea was playing a winner 's game and he failed to come through because of his cowardice . |
| 14 | The little orchestra was playing a minuet when she began to descend the sumptuously draped stairs . |
| 15 | ‘ The only reason I ever played Les Pauls was because Keith was playing a Strat and I thought we should have a different look , but from about 1985 on I 've played Strats . |
| 16 | At the time he was perfectly rational — he did n't feel schizoid — he was playing a part . |
| 17 | In fact , Dinah was playing a part , and her sons knew it ; the part of a widow leaving the past behind . |
| 18 | ‘ She was playing a bit of commonish type girl , with really short mini skirts and all this . |
| 19 | He was playing a Stratocaster and nobody else was , and he had that ‘ in-between ’ tone and everybody was trying to figure out how he got that sound . |
| 20 | On my first day of school my mum kept trying to wake me but I pretended I was asleep because I was so nervous , eventually mum knew that I was playing a trick . |
| 21 | One arm kept getting entangled in the sheets , until he began to think that she was playing a trick on him . |
| 22 | He was playing a glove , she could see that now , through the smoke and hi-tech gloom . |
| 23 | He was playing a cop in Colors . |
| 24 | He was playing a kind of Talleyrand role : the gallant old fox . |
| 25 | Somewhere somebody was playing a pipe , a sad fluting lament in the hot air . |
| 26 | Only he was n't , of course ; he was playing a Fender Bass VI . |
| 27 | Thank heavens the band was playing a waltz and not a rumba . |
| 28 | It knew it was playing a role in history , and it rose to the occasion . |
| 29 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 30 | He was playing a number called ‘ Moonlight on the Highway ’ , a particular favourite , very slow , quite haunting . |