Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |
| 2 | What he obviously had in mind was the manoeuvre carried out by horsemen displaying their skill at a gymkhana . |
| 3 | The suburbs he especially had in mind were the opulent , tree-lined jobs of Victorian England . |
| 4 | Someone just mentioned , yeah , it just sprang to mind , someone just mentioned er , the options on moving , if you , cos |
| 5 | But most of the mealtime was spent with her either backing away from his leading philandering comments , or racking her brain to think of some comments or questions of her own — other than those that so easily sprang to mind , but which all centred around his employer . |
| 6 | The plan which Henry still had in mind was for his eldest son to take all of those lands which he himself had inherited from his father and mother , i.e. Anjou , Maine , Normandy and England , while Richard should have the land which he had acquired by virtue of his marriage to Eleanor . |
| 7 | Some of them do it sheepishly , and with reluctance and say , It 's never what I ever had in mind . |
| 8 | He also called to mind the noble Earl 's father , Lord Kilmarnock , beheaded in London for his part in the '45 ; the son who hosted Boswell and Johnson broke with the family 's rebellious tradition and sided with the King and London . |
| 9 | They also had in mind that the platform could be removed , leaving the warehouse in substantially the same state as it was before it was installed . |
| 10 | It is evident that the prosecuting authorities also had in mind to prosecute the applicant for implication in some of Mr. Turner 's offences , but a decision was taken in 1988 , and communicated to the applicant 's solicitors , that proceedings would be put back until after the B.M.F.L. trial . |
| 11 | Further council documents show that the appropriate department and the council itself had in mind the ‘ effect of traffic attraction to the site upon the environment in the approach roads , ’ but also had in mind ‘ the employment potential of the use proposed in the planning application . ’ |
| 12 | Waite J. also recorded that Dr. N. , a consultant paediatrician and paediatric cardiologist with another London teaching hospital who had been consulted by the Official Solicitor , was broadly in agreement with Dr. I. The judge no doubt also had in mind the report of Dr. R. , who had confirmed all Dr. I. 's findings , but had not in terms expressed a view on the appropriateness of positive pressure ventilation . |
| 13 | I also had in mind the terms of section 39 of the Act of 1987 . |
| 14 | Now I also had in mind something along these lines … ’ |
| 15 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 16 | They probably had in mind , too , the concern of the pope-demonstrated in his letters and by his emissaries — to restore peace to the realm so that the king might proceed on crusade . |
| 17 | And I think this is behind I made some adverse comment about the Prime Minister 's comment about the burden of the old — to be fair , I think one of the problems she probably had in mind was the fact not of the immediate peak of elderly people , but the peak in the twenty/twenties where the full impact of the erm pension scheme that we 've got will hit with a considerably older population — can we afford it ? |
| 18 | The ‘ old friend ’ to which he referred and which Van Gelder clearly had in mind , was the Meltemi wind , referred to as the ‘ Etesian ’ in the British sailing directions . |
| 19 | She even claims to be the government 's science policy coordinator — a role we should n't attach too much weight too , according to Mrs Thatcher , who once told New Scientist off for inflating this part of her job beyond what she really had in mind . |
| 20 | NUMEROSO : Before we go on , Unesco , could you tell us what you really had in mind when you proposed this experiment ? |
| 21 | One much-remarked upon feature was the extent to which students now had in mind future career chances . |
| 22 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 23 | They say they 'd appreciate knowing what I originally had in mind , so they can see if it still sounds suitable . |
| 24 | The two that immediately came to mind were running a charity and looking at whether any of her work was commercially viable which , since it is biotechnology-based , there was a good chance it would be . |
| 25 | When they reached it Sarah counted four children playing near the turf-sided lock , and fears for Angel 's safety immediately sprang to mind . |
| 26 | This was in part due to Reginald Birch 's illustrations which kept the boy always in black velvet and lace , even when he was riding his pony , and in part to the intense relationship between mother and son ; Mrs Burnett here had in mind herself and her son Vivian , upon whom Fauntleroy himself was modelled . |
| 27 | When Seemore declares that his fingers ‘ want to run amok in all your garments , ’ he irresistibly brought to mind Franchot Tone sighing to Jean Harlow , ‘ I want to run barefoot through your hair . ’ |
| 28 | He undoubtedly had in mind the particular patterns and balanced relationship of the various dances ( i.e. solos , grands pas , variations , etc. ) as laid out in all Petipa ballets and he made the ballerina the focus of all attention . |
| 29 | When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte , whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist , miser , termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown . |
| 30 | This rugby fanatic doubtless had in mind the tendency of Welsh forwards , in recent times , to give away daft penalty kicks . |