Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been playing [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been playing a Les Paul plugged straight into a Boogie Dual Rectifier , and this great ‘ 63 Telecaster I bought in Boston which might or might not be Ronnie Earl 's old guitar . |
| 5 | I 've been playing the piano and the piano accordion for about 60 years . |
| 6 | I have been playing a cad for too long and have forgotten my table manners . ’ |
| 7 | I have been playing the tune now for nearly 40 years . |
| 8 | It was as if she had been playing a part with all her might for several months , but it had sapped her energy . |
| 9 | You had been playing the piano in public in Salzburg since 1918 , when you were barely ten years old , and you went on to play Mozart piano concertos and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies in public concerts . |
| 10 | This may occur if you have been playing a game or using a program that has somehow corrupted your system files . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We 've been playing the records he bought . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | They 've been playing The Marquee every week . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Glass had first started writing music seriously when he was at the University of Chicago , although he had been playing the flute since he was eight . |
| 17 | He had been playing the piano in a waterfront bar in Dar Es Salaam when he had heard one of the customers talking about the Legion . |
| 18 | He 's been playing the part in theatres up and down the country for over a year , so he 's had several first nights for this production alone . |
| 19 | A cricketer who 's ninety not out is being urged by team-mates to consider retirement … he 's been playing the game since nineteen-ten . |