Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pos pn] mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words tumbled through his mind , and inside his head he could see himself — as if on a stage — daring the figure to make its business known . |
| 2 | A confusion of emotions tumbled through his mind : anger , concern , fear . |
| 3 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've probably lain like that with dozens of women , ’ she threw back at him , not caring what she said as long as she could exorcise the intimate pictures still flashing through her mind . |
| 5 | Georgie , Marion , Paul , Linda — the children 's faces floated through my mind . |
| 6 | The thoughts swirled through her mind as she followed Silas and Doreen to the dining-room , and as they went towards the corner table Matt stood up . |
| 7 | Donna made herself comfortable and prepared to sleep , wondering , despite the fact that she was tired , whether or not the thoughts tumbling through her mind would be still long enough to allow her two or three precious hours ' rest . |
| 8 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 9 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |
| 10 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 11 | Did you never know about your mind . |
| 12 | Shannon allowed the thought to sift through her mind , expecting to feel the usual pain , but there was none . |
| 13 | All this flickered through her mind in a split second and she felt ashamed . |
| 14 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 15 | She felt giddy as the full answer came , crowding into her mind . |
| 16 | Memories real as the rough bark pressing against the back of her hands came crowding into her mind . |
| 17 | Again and again the nightmare rose into his mind like bile into the mouth ; he threshed about in a desperate attempt to shut it out , but again and again he suffered the humiliation , the panic , the pain . |
| 18 | And then , under pressure from Walter Ash , she allowed to slip into her mind the faint , faint hope that by some quirk of reasoning her mother might be persuaded to agree . |
| 19 | If she had come into his mind he had operated his cancelling switch as he did when any of the denizens of Ecalpemos strayed into his thoughts . |
| 20 | Failure to think positively means that negative thoughts have come into his mind . |
| 21 | Erm and what is it that 's come into his mind in a great rush in this part of the poem |
| 22 | It has come into my mind that he needs a wife , one of his own kind , to keep him company . |
| 23 | I 'm sure the word divorce has come into my mind er several times at the crisis points but by God 's strength you keep going and you grow . |
| 24 | The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she felt vaguely guilty when she realised it was a great relief to have this excuse . |
| 25 | One minute he was full of longing to get on with the things that swam into his mind : sorting his stamps , cleaning his sports gear , starting his diary , writing his play . |
| 26 | Without meaning to , she had let into his mind , like a pack of wolves , hard and surprising thoughts about the death of the Pitts . |
| 27 | Now close your eyes and allow the picture to come into your mind of where you were when you last had the item in your possession . |
| 28 | You deal a card , study it , meditate on it , let your mind go blank and allow a picture to come into your mind . ’ |
| 29 | Walking into her mind with his usual ease , he said brusquely , ‘ It 's all right . |
| 30 | A biblical phrase dropped into his mind , ‘ Doing evil that good may come ’ . |