Example sentences of "[verb] be play [noun sg] " 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 | Zara has been playing tennis since she was 9 , which is rather surprising , as her family are not ‘ tennis ’ people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jodi Evans has been playing basketball since she was 12 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Instead , the general has been playing politics outside the cabinet . |
| 9 | Kallicharran , who turned 43 in March , has been playing club cricket for Gloucester City this season , and made his debut for his new county on August 5 against Devon , the leaders of the Western Division of the Minor Counties championship . |
| 10 | She 'd been playing tennis , and was swinging her racquet as she walked . |
| 11 | The mess was almost empty except for an Education Corps captain who was also using the place as an hotel , and three unmarried young officers who 'd been playing tennis and should n't have been in the ante-room dressed like that . |
| 12 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 13 | The fighting started among a group of men who 'd been playing pool . |
| 14 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 15 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 16 | They might have been playing chess . |
| 17 | Erm well just as you come , that 's the best I felt all afternoon and I , all I was doing was playing peepo with them through me jumper , cos I games |
| 18 | The company with whom she had been playing tennis and swimming and was now sitting , were an old friend she had known since Pony Club days , and her newly acquired husband , and David Fairfax , Junior , son of the house , spectacled and earnest and studying to be a chartered accountant . |
| 19 | He had been playing golf and was wearing cavalry-twill trousers and a plaid tie round an unbuttoned shirt-neck . |
| 20 | Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her , and Shelley had come to take over . |
| 21 | On Friday night Lord Dersingham had been playing patience . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had been playing football and lines of dust and sweat were pouring down his strained red face . |
| 25 | The hands that had been playing basketball with Godzilla 's head , stopped moving . |
| 26 | He had been playing bridge and drinking a few pints of Mild at the Over 60s club . |
| 27 | Zsuzsa , who had been playing chess since the age of four , won her Master title in 1982 at the age of 13 ( Karpov did not reach that standard until 15 ) ; she was an International Master at 18 . |
| 28 | Andrew Garthwaite had been playing pool with his attacker and thought at first it was a joke . |
| 29 | Robert Moore , prosecuting , said Mr Garthwaite , 17 , had been playing pool with Simpson in the Linthorpe Pub in Middlesbrough . |
| 30 | 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 . |