Example sentences of "have been playing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin has been playing both doubles and singles , and reached the semi-finals of the British Universities Championships , and was a beaten finalist in the recent Scottish Varsities tournament . |
| 2 | All season he has been playing well , putting poorly . |
| 3 | Strach has been playing well , but definitely fading after 1hr . |
| 4 | He has been playing well and we might well need him again . |
| 5 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the bastards are 13 points minus 2 games clear , so they must have been playing well . |
| 7 | It must have been a dismal job for those children , who , like children everywhere , would have preferred to have been playing rather than handling ton after ton of cold wet ore and stone . |
| 8 | Cassie had been playing absentmindedly with the buttons on Johnny 's shirt , and now she brushed the material away and pushed her mouth against his shoulder , biting gently with small sharp teeth . |
| 9 | ‘ I had been playing well since I returned from America , but the putts have just not dropped . |
| 10 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 11 | Her husband , who was carrying her clubs and who , in golfing terms , is very much of the conservative half of the partnership , had refrained from protesting , presumably on the grounds that his wife had been playing well and was ‘ up ’ for the shot . |
| 12 | Mr Mynott said a radio had been playing loudly in the office from which he made the call , but neither Mr Major nor Mr Clarke appeared to notice . |
| 13 | But when I did find out I was profoundly relieved to know that all these troubling fantasies which had been playing twice nightly in my head were , in fact , shared by others . |
| 14 | Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice . |
| 15 | It 's over 220 yards , of course , and it had been playing long all week . |
| 16 | He had been playing alone on the towpath , if anything as purposeless as hurling old beer cans into the canal could be described as playing , and she had paused to say good morning to him . |
| 17 | The band had been playing together for two years , at school dances , in pubs and as support at a couple of bigger concerts , but they 'd never been written about before . |
| 18 | The pair had been playing together near the busy A50 in Milton Keynes , Bucks , when Scott was hit by a white van or bus . |
| 19 | ‘ And Steve had been playing so good at that point in his life . |
| 20 | The youngster , who had been playing nearby with Mr Trueman 's son , calmly replaced the jack and raised the car . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's simply that while we 've been playing well in possession , we have n't been doing the job when the opposition have had the ball . |
| 22 | They 've been playing well and creating chances . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been playing well but ca n't seem to find the net , ’ he said . |
| 24 | He told the crowd : ‘ It seems like I 've been playing here forever — and you 've been watching me forever . |
| 25 | I 'VE BEEN PLAYING AWAY FROM HOME |
| 26 | Because with Mark and that the amount of practical jokes we we 've been playing anyway I can see fucking saw , our legs being sawn off chairs and stuff . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of people have told us we 've been playing better than last season but we have n't produced winning football . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You 've been playing too much football |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |