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Example sentences for "been thinking"

  • I've been thinking that, ever since I sent Hilda the ode.

  • Fact is, Worcester, I've been thinking how it is that Biffen's is the slackest house in the place.

  • You see, I'd been thinking a good deal of my father and mother.

  • I've been thinking that I shall leave the service," replied Jack.

  • I've been thinking that I've a good story for the old Governor.

  • We've been thinking of Jane all night, and you need it now more than she does.

  • I've been thinking of you as a little boy.

  • I've been thinking of a wedding trip in a yacht with white ribbons tied to the mast, through the Mediterranean, and then up among the Hebrides and down Norway to the Zuyder Zee.

  • But," continued Teddy cheerfully, "I've been thinking of resigning anyway.

  • And I been thinking, sir, that if you could tie three or four sheets together and slide down 'em you might get hold o' that ladder they put up again' the window to swarm up.

  • Zackly so, sir; that's what I've been thinking.

  • And that's what I've been thinking of, all these weeks of misery--your perfect sincerity.

  • I hope you haven't been thinking it was some fault of his?

  • I've been thinking, Rosalie; and I want to give you something for Christmas which will make you happy throughout the year.

  • And what have I been thinking of till now?

  • Especially if you remember that Mamma had long been thinking of it; but I had never happened to meet her before, somehow it had always happened that we did not meet.

  • Do you know, Mary, what I've been thinking?

  • I've been thinking, you'll need another horse on the place now.

  • I've been thinking of making a start here, and that very soon.

  • Isak, I've been thinking, we ought to have a pig.

  • I've been thinking about it for six months, and I know it will be a hard struggle for mother to go; but in a little while she will be glad she went.

  • She knew now what Baxter had been thinking.

  • I don't know what your mother could have been thinking of to let him go.

  • Mamma says she's been thinking of it for a long time.

  • Well, sir, I've been thinking that if you gents--Pst!

  • Well, I don't know, sir; I've been thinking as perhaps we could.

  • The thing I've been thinking, sir, is that, little as it be, we must make the most of our garrison.

  • I've been thinking a deal about you, sir.

  • I've been thinking, sir, that perhaps it would be best to fire the big guns under the gate-way to-night.

  • And he had been thinking--What had he been thinking?

  • Eleanor had been thoughtful, it was true, but it had never occurred to her mother that she had really been thinking--about such things as she had been thinking about.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been thinking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been away; been carried; been described; been employed; been found; been havin; been having; been laid; been looking; been married; been possible; been said; been sent; been sitting; been taken; been thinkin; been tryin; behind time; being again; black spots; each quart; high bank; possible from; special care; steps were; taking office