Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She guessed that Mike Booker would be calling curses down on her head because he 'd been hoping a one-two win at Estoril would clinch the constructors ' championship for Carlisle Flint , quite apart from putting Ace into an unbeatable lead . |
| 2 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 3 | The miners had been seeking a 25 per cent pay increase , but the mine faced an uncertain future , with reserves expected to run out by 1996 . |
| 4 | As recently as September 1990 it had been expecting a 2.4 per cent growth for 1991 . |
| 5 | Diana , who had been expecting the two boys to join her at Althorp in Northamptonshire today , phoned them briefly yesterday morning . |
| 6 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |