Sentence examples for had been brooding from inspiring English sources

A day or so later I replaced the golf balls she had been brooding with fertile eggs delivered by post.

Mankiewicz said that Welles had been brooding over the credits, that he could see how beautiful they would be: "Produced by Orson Welles.

He had tapped on the window, and Alice, who had been brooding in a corner, had leapt into joyous life to open it for him.

Not Dickens so much, though I'm deeply flattered and embarrassed by the comparison, but I don't see Dickens as a realist and I had been brooding on the realist novel.

"He said, 'Do you have anything you would like to work on?' I had been brooding over this obituary of Roy Cohn that had appeared in The Nation, with the old-left idea that there is some mysterious connection between fascism and homosexuality," Kushner says.

(Have I told you about Ian Holm as Henry V and Malcolm McDowell understudying the English messenger at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966?) However, it was a show I had been brooding on for several years that seemed to please everybody right away.

"I have been brooding for some months now about stopping.

I have been brooding a lot lately on what I have come to think of as the Two-Cafe Problem.

Since the late Forties I have been brooding about it and sometimes I imagine I can see something.

"And I discovered that he has been brooding for twenty years about what he would do if he became President.

Laurence Scott is a literary type who has been brooding on the implications and meanings of digital technology for a while.