Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [be] [v-ing] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In one instance , a local commercial waste-collection contractor overestimated the tonnage he was disposing of at his own landfill site by 30% . |
| 3 | Des inspects me like I 'm a record he 's thinking of buying . |
| 4 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 5 | He would have used a common wood , not exotic , but all the same , there would be more of it to be found , perhaps even in the cabinet he was making of bleached oak . |
| 6 | He was silent then and I had the feeling he was thinking of all that Cook had done , first in Endeavour , then in Resolution and Discovery , ships not much longer than Isvik . |
| 7 | Supercilious and bullying , he ignored Sien completely and told Vincent what an idiot he was making of himself . |
| 8 | You had to work out this thing he was thinking of , and he gave two dues . |
| 9 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 10 | At this stage he is thinking of something comparable with the Advanced Sea Kayak Club , perhaps operating as an offshoot of the Open Canoe Association of Great Britain in parallel with the Open Canoe Sailing Group . |
| 11 | 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 . |