Example sentences of "had [be] thinking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cabochon , however , had been thinking about it deeply . |
| 2 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 3 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 4 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 5 | Balmer had been thinking about the spectral lines from hydrogen . |
| 6 | He had been thinking about the Doctor 's earlier words , that he should get used to obeying Henri , and had come to the conclusion that doing as he said no longer suited him . |
| 7 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 8 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 9 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 10 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 11 | It was delicious to be close to Alain , to belong to him , to know that all the time she had been alone he had been thinking about her . |
| 12 | It annoyed her even more that his continuing aristocratic demeanour disappointed her after the way she had been thinking about him . |
| 13 | She had been thinking about nothing else except this phone call for days now , wrestling with the conflict of emotions that were raging inside . |
| 14 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 15 | Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty . |
| 16 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 17 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 18 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 19 | Hugh Kenner is no doubt right to suppose that it was Pound who had been thinking of it . |
| 20 | Christian leaders who had been thinking of it have been backing off . |
| 21 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had been thinking of the three men downstairs , though perhaps one could hardly count John as being in the running . |
| 30 | She had been thinking of Mark and she had felt cold and lonely , so lonely … |