Example sentences of "have [adv] been playing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've all been playing games with me . ’ |
| 2 | And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . |
| 3 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 4 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 5 | He had merely been playing with her . |
| 6 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 7 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 8 | Its polythene wrapping looked vaguely torn and grubby , as if members of the Waitrose staff had already been playing catch with it . |
| 9 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 10 | THOSE OF you who remember Sly & Robbie 's so-called golden period , when students would approach reggae DJs and ask for ‘ something by Sly & Robbie ’ when the DJ had already been playing records driven by them all night , had better get used to some changes . |
| 11 | To talk to them , you would think she had still been playing with toys . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've also been playing these new Chandler guitars . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 15 | In an electrifying performance that revealed the depth of his personal frustration at the role he had previously been playing , a raw Welshness returned to his accent and a welcome freshness was injected into his rhetoric , underlined by an extraordinary display of physical gestures involving head , neck , shoulders , arms , hands and fingers . |
| 16 | He 's only been playing seriously for a couple of years , ’ said Luke , hardly flinching as a car cut right in front of him , missing them by millimetres . |
| 17 | They have both been playing so well for us in recent weeks but we will have to reorganise and cope without them . ’ |
| 18 | She 's even been playing again with Martina , most recently in Tokyo in February . |