Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been playing a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I have been playing a cad for too long and have forgotten my table manners . ’ |
| 4 | It was as if she had been playing a part with all her might for several months , but it had sapped her energy . |
| 5 | This may occur if you have been playing a game or using a program that has somehow corrupted your system files . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |