Example sentences of "was thinking of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he was thinking of his model , sometimes of the mixing of his pigments , his tone , his oils ; sometimes of the flesh itself and sometimes of the absorbent canvas . |
| 2 | No , I was thinking of a far worse fate Which can o'ertake you when you 're 28 . |
| 3 | The field is without the Open champion , the US Open champion and the US PGA champion but rumours that Mark McCormack was thinking of inviting another of his clients , Wayne Shelford , to tackle the Burma Road are exaggerated . |
| 4 | If Le Sacre du Printemps was important for the poem , significantly in 1924 he was thinking of a new ‘ strict form ’ of drama , akin to the Russian Ballet . |
| 5 | ‘ I was thinking of taking it , ’ Moran admitted . |
| 6 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 7 | ‘ I was thinking of Hans and the car accident , ’ Bodo said , quite unruffled . |
| 8 | And although Things to Come ( 1936 ) offers a spectacular account of the horrors of mechanized warfare , no one was thinking of the native audience when putting into the mouth of Raymond Massey a description of Britain as ‘ that last dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiery , the last would-be conquerors . ’ |
| 9 | Amy at the stove , experimenting with coloured dyes ( 6,7,8,9 ) : ‘ For this print , I was thinking of patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was thinking of a general problem , ’ he said later , |
| 11 | While no doubt Paul was thinking of the uncomplicated Christian message compared with the sophisticated philosophies of his day , and of the simple slaves and ordinary people who were joining the Christian family , he might have had the Lord 's background in mind as well . |
| 12 | See , when we get the pre-fab , we get this little titchy bit of space round the edge , so I was thinking of us having a garden . ’ |
| 13 | I wondered if he thought Dana and I were about to tie the knot , or whether he was thinking of us individually — the latter , I think , because he had warned me against marriage once or twice before when I had shown what he regarded as too much interest in a woman friend . |
| 14 | I was thinking of that . |
| 15 | She could have mentioned how Leila was thinking of leaving the group , but held back . |
| 16 | She was thinking of the jellycrusts . |
| 17 | Perhaps SHe was thinking of Tammuz too . |
| 18 | But Sandra was thinking of sheep . |
| 19 | He was thinking of settling in this land of freedom , he told me as I sat down opposite . |
| 20 | I was thinking of a little black cat gazing up at me with dim eyes ; Rozanov of I know not what — possibly Ulrike Meinhof . |
| 21 | And she was thinking of her lost shilling . |
| 22 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 23 | Since there is no indication what Mira is unhappy about , or whether Leapor was thinking of any real person in Celia , it is very difficult to judge the significance of this poem . |
| 24 | ‘ Well I was thinking of boiling up some offal afterwards . ’ |
| 25 | In 1968 Jack Nicholson was thinking of giving up acting altogether . |
| 26 | All the shame , the desertions , the exposures of their life there , ( this is what the man was thinking of as he sat silent by Boy 's side ) , all the slow hours and cruel thoughts and disappointments of the night . |
| 27 | ( Note , incidentally , that already he was thinking of himself as English , not South African ) . |
| 28 | His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago . |
| 29 | No I thought to myself you do not deserve this death and the you I was thinking of was not the fish itself but all those people standing on the bank . |
| 30 | After Pipeline , he was thinking of catching a plane back to Wales . |