Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [be] thinking [prep] " 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 | Des inspects me like I 'm a record he 's thinking of buying . |
| 3 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The last thing he 's thinking about is being followed . |
| 6 | You had to work out this thing he was thinking of , and he gave two dues . |
| 7 | There would be no distinction between the thinker and the reality he was thinking about . |
| 8 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 9 | Just at this time he was thinking about and drafting his meditation about home , namely the West Country , in the poem which became East Coker . |
| 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 . |