Example sentences of "was thinking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although Things to Come ( 1936 ) offers a spectacular account of the horrors of mechanized warfare , no one was thinking of the native audience when putting into the mouth of Raymond Massey a description of Britain as ‘ that last dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiery , the last would-be conquerors . ’ |
| 2 | While no doubt Paul was thinking of the uncomplicated Christian message compared with the sophisticated philosophies of his day , and of the simple slaves and ordinary people who were joining the Christian family , he might have had the Lord 's background in mind as well . |
| 3 | She was thinking of the jellycrusts . |
| 4 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 5 | Knowledge of German … little … ’ — I was thinking of the pleasure of being once again among my own people . |
| 6 | I was thinking of the colour of her hair : Daniel , you may remember , alluded to her as a redhead . |
| 7 | But I was thinking of the ones you see in cottages . |
| 8 | ‘ Before we came aboard this ship I was thinking of the possibilities . ’ |
| 9 | As his feet touched the bottom he was thinking of the tanks the Allies had intended to land on the rocky promontory before him ; clearly this was not possible , for now in the starlight he could see its rock face was impassable . |
| 10 | ’ John made it clear enough that he was thinking of the Roman curia : ‘ In our everyday ministry we often have to listen , greatly to our sorrow , to those … who do not have much discretion or balance ’ . |
| 11 | Almost certainly Thomas Cromwell was thinking of the data assembled in 1522 when he estimated the nation 's wealth at £4 million , one-quarter of which was annual income from land , which should be multiplied by twenty — the customary rate of capitalisation — to effect a valid comparison with the three million comprised by the capital value of moveables . |
| 12 | I was thinking of the first one which was reproduced in Herbert Read . |
| 13 | Even the second movement of the Suite , which can sound merely hectic , has a musicality reinforcing the awareness that Schoenberg was thinking of the world of cabaret as much as of the classroom and counterpoint . |
| 14 | I was thinking of the compromise , Sebastian 's , my own . |
| 15 | Writing in the mid-1930s , he was thinking of the huge growth in the power of banks and oligopolies which it seemed beyond the capacity of Parliament to comprehend or to control . |
| 16 | Flavia was thinking of the monstrous mass of tuberoses now reposing inside that vast refrigerator under their paper veils . |
| 17 | She was thinking of the book that had been left open on the bedcover when she first visited ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 18 | He was thinking of the future . |
| 19 | Tough to see the connection , unless someone was thinking of the body count in Hamlet . ’ |
| 20 | I was thinking of the mothers . |
| 21 | She knew instantly that he was thinking of the Father of Lies — for the Prince of Darkness has as many titles as the Prince of Wales — and she went pink . |
| 22 | I expect the young novelist ( it seems unfair to give his name ) was thinking of the ‘ first , suppressed edition ’ of Les Fleurs du mal . |
| 23 | Yeah that 's the thing I was thinking of the T R P like you say the transition relevance point . |
| 24 | And I was thinking of the future . ’ |
| 25 | She suspected that Mark was thinking of the West Indians who had come to live in the parish and of course that was very right . |
| 26 | ‘ I was thinking of the property , rather than of you and Doreen , ’ she retorted , while silently admitting the truth of his accusation . |
| 27 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 28 | I asked to keep her talking , but I was thinking of the scribble on the photocopies I 'd found . |
| 29 | Mahmoud , however , was thinking of the case . |
| 30 | She was thinking of the periodic visits she had made to her father ; they were all the same ; their conversations could have been scripted : |