Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in mind " in BNC.

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1 What he obviously had in mind was the manoeuvre carried out by horsemen displaying their skill at a gymkhana .
2 The suburbs he especially had in mind were the opulent , tree-lined jobs of Victorian England .
3 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 .
4 Some of them do it sheepishly , and with reluctance and say , It 's never what I ever had in mind .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 I also had in mind the terms of section 39 of the Act of 1987 .
10 Now I also had in mind something along these lines … ’
11 By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind .
12 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 .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 NUMEROSO : Before we go on , Unesco , could you tell us what you really had in mind when you proposed this experiment ?
17 One much-remarked upon feature was the extent to which students now had in mind future career chances .
18 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 ) .
19 They say they 'd appreciate knowing what I originally had in mind , so they can see if it still sounds suitable .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 This rugby fanatic doubtless had in mind the tendency of Welsh forwards , in recent times , to give away daft penalty kicks .
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