Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have been play " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 2 | Ever since it was revealed that Grant has a boat I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 7 | Just what is this little cat-and-mouse game you 've been playing ? ’ |
| 8 | Every night this week he 's been playing Hendrix to a packed Ronnie Scott 's in Birmingham . |
| 9 | All season he has been playing well , putting poorly . |
| 10 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 11 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | And then he would remember how it was , there on the island in the lantern light ; how he had watched her lose herself in the tune she had been playing ; how her voice had seemed the voice of his spirit singing , freed like a bird into the darkness of the night . |