Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been playing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been playing ‘ normally ’ for about 10 years , then in about 1975 I started to try slide . |
| 3 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 4 | ‘ I had been playing well since I returned from America , but the putts have just not dropped . |
| 5 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 8 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 9 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been playing patience all afternoon , Miss Danziger ! |
| 11 | I 've been playing with that idea all day . |
| 12 | I 've been playing tennis . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been playing it quite badly , ’ said Rhodes candidly . |
| 14 | ‘ On this new album there 's one huge track called The Lighthouse , which a lot of people have heard because I 've been playing it on stage — an hour out of two and a half is this album . |
| 15 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , I 've been playing around with one for quite a while ; it 's a very nice piece of work . |
| 17 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
| 18 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been playing Jimi 's stuff live for about fifteen years , now , ’ says Hansen , ‘ but The Ventures was what I listened to first , then it was The Stones and The Beatles . |
| 20 | I 've been playing a Les Paul plugged straight into a Boogie Dual Rectifier , and this great ‘ 63 Telecaster I bought in Boston which might or might not be Ronnie Earl 's old guitar . |
| 21 | As all the world knows I 'm now 61 so it follows I 've been playing for yonks , interrupted only by a broken leg and two children . |
| 22 | I 've been playing ever since I hung up my football boots in 1980 , and the strongest weapon in my armoury is still my lungs : I can shout ‘ FORE ’ louder than anyone I know . |
| 23 | He told the crowd : ‘ It seems like I 've been playing here forever — and you 've been watching me forever . |
| 24 | I 'VE BEEN PLAYING AWAY FROM HOME |
| 25 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 26 | I 've been playing the Modern Jazz Quartet 's records over and over again . |
| 27 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , look at my racquet , Mam ; I 've been playing tennis . ’ |
| 29 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |