Example sentences of "[vb past] be thinking of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 2 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 4 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 7 | Hugh Kenner is no doubt right to suppose that it was Pound who had been thinking of it . |
| 8 | Christian leaders who had been thinking of it have been backing off . |
| 9 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 10 | A few days earlier I had been thinking of calling my doctor to assess the chances of having my vasectomy reversed in order to save my marriage to Karen . |
| 11 | He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven … |
| 12 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 13 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 14 | For a moment she thought he was going to throw his arms round her and hug her , she was sure he had been thinking of it , but he hesitated and she turned away . |
| 15 | At the end of the lunch , Branson said in a faltering voice that there was something he had been thinking of doing , and he wanted to ask Laker how he would feel about it . |
| 16 | They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart . |
| 17 | She had been thinking of the three men downstairs , though perhaps one could hardly count John as being in the running . |
| 18 | She had been thinking of Mark and she had felt cold and lonely , so lonely … |
| 19 | David told her that he had been thinking of working hard to get Amaranth Wilikins selected as the Conservative candidate for Arden in place of Sir Ralph . |
| 20 | Churchill had been thinking of delaying his resignation , even if defeated , until after the weekend ; but the results were so devastating to his party that on the very evening of the declaration of most of them — 26 July — he decided to go to the palace , resign his commission as Prime Minister , and invite the King to send for Attlee . |
| 21 | I had been thinking of having a War shortly , maybe in the next week or so , but with Eric probably going to make an appearance I had decided against it . |
| 22 | She had been thinking of Jennifer , but she had n't wanted to say as much in front of David . |
| 23 | It 's understood Mr Bryan had been thinking of returning to Painswick this weekend to escape the hoarde of newsmen beseigning him in London … |
| 24 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |