Example sentences of "[verb] been playing [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the setbacks , Geoff has been playing golf for 16 years . |
| 2 | Lawrence , who has been playing golf for almost three years , has a handicap of 20 . |
| 3 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 4 | They have a cluster of players standing by to fill the vacant back-row , while former Scottish B winger Stuart Porter , who has been playing flanker down the club this season , returns to the right wing in place of Graeme Copeland . |
| 5 | A big-built Scottish woman , who has been playing pool in the other section of the pub , crosses over to the east side of the bar and puts in her last orders . |
| 6 | Instead , the general has been playing politics outside the cabinet . |
| 7 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 8 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 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 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 11 | The hands that had been playing basketball with Godzilla 's head , stopped moving . |
| 12 | Andrew Garthwaite had been playing pool with his attacker and thought at first it was a joke . |
| 13 | Robert Moore , prosecuting , said Mr Garthwaite , 17 , had been playing pool with Simpson in the Linthorpe Pub in Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | He had been playing centre-half for Clapton , alongside Denis Hill-Wood , son of the then Arsenal chairman , when he got a telegram from Clapton 's secretary Harry Kordell . |
| 15 | The people of Zurich have been playing host to the world for a long time , and you reap the benefit of matured experience . |
| 16 | And yet , as er as Linda said women have been playing football for the last seventy , and before that , I mean op , throughout the century women have been playing football ! |
| 17 | Steve 's been playing golf for 18 months now . |