Example sentences of "had be playing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two versions of the film , in the violent version a small boy had been playing outside the bank and was shot in the face as the robbers made their getaway . |
| 2 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 3 | He had been playing on the terrace , but he clambered to his feet and , yelling , ‘ Mo ’ car , ’ hurtled down the drive as fast as his little legs would carry him . |
| 4 | Cos it had been playing on her mind for weeks . |
| 5 | Toby ( 4.5 ) had been playing with blocks , but then wandered away and the blocks were put away by two other boys , who spent a long time carefully fitting the different sizes of blocks into the two boxes . |
| 6 | They had been playing with the Bic lighter in a bedroom at their grandparents ' home . |
| 7 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 8 | Mary had been playing with some other children in the stable yard and had suddenly fainted . |
| 9 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 10 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 11 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 12 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 13 | The incident happened on Saturday after Mr Pollard had been playing for Newent Town . |
| 14 | The incident happened on Saturday after Mr Pollard had been playing for Newent Town . |
| 15 | The incident happened on Saturday after Mr Pollard had been playing for Newent Town . |
| 16 | The incident happened on Saturday after Mr Pollard had been playing for Newent Town . |
| 17 | He had been playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , Middlesex , when he was injured . |
| 18 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 19 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 20 | So Fernando had been playing by himself — her heart bled for him ! |
| 21 | The same production had been playing in six or seven theatres in Britain already , and no fire officer in any of those places had found any problem . |
| 22 | The fans absolutely loved him and would throng the terraces to witness his extrovert pre-match warm-up sessions , in which he entertained and even amused the supporters before returning to the dressing-room as mud-stained and soiled as if he had been playing in a game . |
| 23 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |