Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [be] thinking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 2 | When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes . |
| 3 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 4 | Rain had not been thinking of doing that . |
| 5 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 6 | I know but you 've not been thinking of me . |
| 7 | Dot had n't been thinking of her . |
| 8 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 9 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 10 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 11 | There were frogs all round us , bubbling away , and we sat still for a bit and then he said , ‘ That 's the sound of Africa — it 's one of the things I love best ’ , and I knew he had n't been thinking about the baby or about me . |
| 12 | The truth was that George had n't been thinking about anything except himself . |
| 13 | One example of this " sham reading " is brought to our notice when we realise , on reaching the bottom of a page , that we have not been thinking about what the text means . |