Example sentences of "his mind to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	He watched her graceful movements as she came towards him and tried to shut his mind to the sight of her bare limbs .
2	A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place .
3	Grimly he worked the pump action to eject the load , closing his mind to the thought of the wall and ceiling smeared with his brain matter , when he put the muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger .
4	Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ .
5	So far as the latter issue was concerned , to succeed the applicant had to show that the decision was ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ .
6	" It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it . " "
7	‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it : ’
8	He was a grey-haired dynamo of a man , bursting with ideas and good humour , who was not afraid to speak his mind to the Prince of Wales .
9	Looking down corrected the illusion , so instead he applied his mind to the business in hand .
10	Then he –hut his mind to the host of possible consequences and pushed .

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