Examples of 'had been thinking' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been thinking"

Had Been Thinking: This phrase indicates that a person or group had engaged in a process of considering, pondering, or reflecting on a particular subject or issue in the past. It implies a period of contemplation or mental activity that occurred before a specific point in time. 'Had been thinking' suggests a level of introspection, deliberation, or mental exploration that has already taken place

How to use "had been thinking" in a sentence

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had been thinking
I had been thinking she seemed rather better.
He said that he had been thinking about.
We had been thinking about it for a long time.
It almost seemed as if the computer had been thinking.
He said he had been thinking about adopting a child.
Cloud reappeared where he had been thinking about.
I had been thinking about maybe recording a single.
I saw in his eyes he had been thinking this through.
I had been thinking about my plan all night.
He tried to remember what he had been thinking before he drifted off.
You had been thinking about me every moment.
To remind me he had been thinking of me.
I had been thinking that it would be nice if it existed.
What a lot of people had been thinking was expressed in action.
Had been thinking about your painting.

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All week she had been thinking of change.
The diploma in his hand was not heavy like he had been thinking.
Probably she had been thinking of something sexy.
Perhaps the problem was that people had been thinking too big.
I knew he had been thinking about the diamonds.
Have been killed later in the day than they all had been thinking.
He had been thinking carefully about it for months.
Julietta recounted what she had been thinking for two days.
We had been thinking about it for a while and.
He would only say that he had been thinking about it for days.
He had been thinking about things as well.
Finding the solution to a problem you had been thinking about all day.
I had been thinking about it for years.
What she did not know was that he had been thinking about her too.
I had been thinking about oysters for several days.
The mayor noted this is a decision he had been thinking about for the last month.
He had been thinking in terms of rendering such compensation effective.
Says it broke his heart because he had been thinking about his return for years.
They had been thinking about it for some time.
I have joined a prenatal training course been studying relating materials also had been thinking carefully.
I had been thinking about you a lot.
Mastretta really wanted to focus on a novel that she had been thinking about for years.
I had been thinking about it since lunchtime.
Tom wondered what Mary had been thinking about.
He had been thinking about it since we arrived.
Amazon and Walmart had been thinking about this too.
I had been thinking about cutting my hair for a while.
It turned out that Lucy had been thinking of it for some time too.
He had been thinking about his brother all day.
In the meantime I had been thinking about agents.
She had been thinking about one of their conversations.
I was incredibly ashamed for what I had been thinking.
I had been thinking about replacing my van.
Brain Slaves explained they had been thinking about a name change for some time.
I had been thinking of suicide and had it all planned.

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