Examples of 'he had been planning' in a sentence

Meaning of "he had been planning"

He had been planning suggests a past continuous action of creating a strategy or course of action for a future event

How to use "he had been planning" in a sentence

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he had been planning
He had been planning to attend a meeting that night.
It was reported that he had been planning this attack for a year.
He had been planning the murder for a week.
He later told me that he had been planning everything for months.
He had been planning his retirement for years.
Investigators believe that he had been planning the attack for months.
He had been planning to relocate to an apartment the month he died.
Rader admitted in his interrogation that he had been planning to kill again.
He had been planning everything out for several months.
At the time of his death he had been planning to enter officer training school.
He had been planning to help her in the first place.
Scholz left a note saying he had been planning to kill himself for several months.
He had been planning to go on tour around the time he was hospitalised.
He later told police that he had been planning the assassination since February.
He had been planning to go on tour around the time he was hospitalized.

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This had given him great distress as he had been planning on becoming a Congregational minister.
He had been planning her party.
However, there were no outward signs he had been planning an attack.
It seems he had been planning his escape for a long time.
For her, it was out of the blue, but he had been planning it.
You said that he had been planning on leaving the docks.
For Mr. Moonves, his exit in disgrace was not the script he had been planning.
He had been planning to join his friends at a local junior college.
At the time of his death, he had been planning to run for a second term.
He had been planning it all out for a couple of years.
Authorities added he had been planning the attack for about a year.
He had been planning this trip for quite some time.
This implies that He had been planning to go to sleep right from the beginning.
He had been planning the attack intensively for months and had prepared a will.
Because he had been planning to meet him the next day in Arabia.
He had been planning this trip since February.
What if he had been planning to hurt more people?
He had been planning additional attacks on Israel.
I think he had been planning his escape from the get-go.
He had been planning to attend ASH right up until his diagnosis.
He had been planning to attend a meeting that night at the Pagan clubhouse.
He had been planning to attend a meeting that night at the P.
He had been planning on resuming touring in January, the email said.
He had been planning to move to piloting the Fokker F-28.

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