Sentence examples for had been play from inspiring English sources
Most of Da Ponte's life so far had been play; all of Mozart's had been work.
He had been play fighting with his friends and he stood on an IED [improvised explosive device].
He and three other neighborhood kids his age had been "play boxing," as the police report termed it, at the school bus stop, and Jeff had given one of the boys a bloody lip.
Cole came in for criticism after that game that he had been play-acting, with David O'Leary claiming his behaviour was "disgraceful".
England's claim to the moral high ground was also undermined by the admission of Westwood that he had been "play-acting" when he stayed on the ground after being felled by Williams.
The forums often splinter into subgroups devoted to minute analysis of, say, the antics of Rivaldo, the Brazilian star who admitted he had been play-acting when he fell to the ground writhing after Hakan Unsal of Turkey kicked the ball at him.
Manhattan had been playing well.
They had been playing for 10 minutes.
ReprintsCongress had been playing a long game.
No games had been played yet.
