Example sentences of "had [be] thinking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | She had been thinking of Jennifer , but she had n't wanted to say as much in front of David . |
| 35 | It 's understood Mr Bryan had been thinking of returning to Painswick this weekend to escape the hoarde of newsmen beseigning him in London … |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 38 | Ianthe , who had been thinking in terms of daffodils and lemon barley water , had not seen herself being so practical . |