Example sentences of "have been playing [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Between now and meeting Fergie and Andy , Johnny has been playing a double game . |
| 2 | In Mozambique , the church has been playing a positive role in the process leading towards peaceful change in that country . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone has been playing a stupid game with me . |
| 4 | Top star Scaggs has been playing a Lowden since last year , when it was introduced to him after a concert and he was so taken by it , that he has now persuaded fellow stars Glenn Campbell and Charlie Daniels to buy them as well . |
| 5 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 6 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 7 | The other is Sir Colin Cowdrey who , as president of the International Cricket Council , has been playing the deadest of bats lately . |
| 8 | Recently the 35-year old Belfast man has been playing the ‘ Irish sweeper ’ role , in front of the back four . |
| 9 | The teacher has been playing the Pied Piper , the children a group from Hamelin negotiating for the release of the children — " How would you describe the way the Pied Piper spoke to you ? |
| 10 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 11 | Presenting their greatest hits as a pension plan nest egg might not have been playing the cutting edge game but , blimey , who is ? |
| 12 | He must have been playing the beastly thing for years . |
| 13 | ‘ And this is Ron , viola , but he really should have been playing the cornet , he spends more time on it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim . |
| 15 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 16 | But he 'd done this before and then suddenly , by a single comment , Willi would reveal that he had been playing a game all along . |
| 17 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 18 | It was as if she had been playing a part with all her might for several months , but it had sapped her energy . |
| 19 | You had been playing the piano in public in Salzburg since 1918 , when you were barely ten years old , and you went on to play Mozart piano concertos and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies in public concerts . |
| 20 | Dominic and Lee had been playing the fool as only young men can . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | He had been playing the piano in a waterfront bar in Dar Es Salaam when he had heard one of the customers talking about the Legion . |
| 23 | The Continental Palace orchestra had been playing the new popular melody " Tea for Two " as he came out onto the terrace , and he had been faintly surprised in the event that nobody had turned to stare at him . |
| 24 | Glass had first started writing music seriously when he was at the University of Chicago , although he had been playing the flute since he was eight . |
| 25 | From greeting her with a kiss at breakfast , throughout the morning , and up to ten minutes ago when , at the lunch table , he had covered her hand with his , gazed into her eyes and called her meu amor , he had been playing the adoring fiancé to perfection . |
| 26 | Now , as he waited for his flight , he felt exhausted , as if he had been playing an enormously difficult game of poker for high stakes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |