I don't see that arising at the moment" – before contemplating the possibility more seriously.
Are New York City teachers seriously contemplating the possibility of a strike?
Aschenbach symbolises that ruin, but dies contemplating the possibility of beauty and transcendence.
We are now left contemplating the possibility of England failing to beat Tonga or Samoa.
C.E.O.s don't like to think about succession, because it means contemplating the possibility that they're not indispensable.
(I've spent some time since then contemplating the possibility that I might be too old for the subjunctive).
Bears to win Are we really contemplating the possibility that Jacksonville could win a fourth straight game?
But as the majors' resistance stiffened, Rickey began contemplating the possibility of establishing the league without baseball's blessing and support.
With half an hour gone it was Murray, not Djokovic, contemplating the possibility that it might not be his day.
Were saving lives with artificial hearts, contemplating the possibility of hypervision, hoping that wherever biology falls short technology will win the day.
But, after contemplating the possibility of setting off the room's sprinkler system, Gorman decided that ripping it to pieces would suffice.
