Example sentences of "he had [been] planning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commentaries would not be designed for the general reader but for the specialist , who , looking up Zapp , would find that the book , article or thesis he had been planning had already been anticipated and , more likely than not , invalidated . |
| 2 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 4 | Prior to his death , he had been planning a full-scale war with Scotland , calling upon his subjects to raise the revenues for the undertaking . |
| 5 | He had been planning a hunger strike for the right of his French wife Christine to visit him : Serfaty was taken from prison and bundled into a plane bound for France and exile . |
| 6 | He had been planning it long enough . |
| 7 | He had been planning a trip to Jamaica before he left for France . |
| 8 | He had been planning to talk to scientists there about their fears for the future when the project ends . |