Example sentences of "it [verb] [pos pn] mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying flat , my naked chest against the cold concrete I fought with the thing till my eyes popped and my breath gave out , but it had not the slightest effect and it made my mind up ; I had to tell him . |
| 2 | Again we worked on it and pushed hard , and again got it to start , jumped on before it changed its mind and sped away . |
| 3 | Once the demand for money and the threat were made and the pistol was produced , would that distract him or would it concentrate his mind on his assailant ? ’ said Mr Justice Leonard . |
| 4 | It is more than this , it develops his mind , his emotion , and it helps him to express his feelings . |
| 5 | And it entered his mind uninvited to wonder about the strangeness of human relationships . |
| 6 | ‘ It concentrated our minds , ’ Sir Denys has admitted . |
| 7 | It concentrated my mind at our interviews again ; I 'd been relaxing . |
| 8 | It filled his mind , and slipped through the evening streets of Dynmouth with him as he rode his bicycle back to his ivy-clad rectory . |
| 9 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visual form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 10 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visible form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 11 | It affected his mind , or so it was said ; he became paranoid and was obsessed with the thought that he had been used as a scapegoat . |
| 12 | It was an interesting experience , both musically and personally ; it opened my mind to all that stuff , the poverty and everything . |
| 13 | Mr Fleming said it moulded their minds : Madness and the Moors . |
| 14 | It 's worth remembering that all drugs are open to abuse , and that people offer what they believe to be plausible explanations for such abuse : " To escape my problems ' ; " To relieve boredom " ; " To stay awake at parties ' ; " For self-confidence " ; " To be one of the crowd " ; " To help me get on with people " ; " To stop me worrying " ; " To become more creative " ; " To help me study all night " ; " It blows my mind " ; " For a pick-me-up " . |
| 15 | And then it sold a few , and a few more , and I thought ‘ Well why not give it a try ? ’ … and it blows my mind . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It blows my mind to see it come through like this . |
| 17 | It concentrates their minds wonderfully . ’ |
| 18 | Boswell quotes Samuel Johnson as saying , " Depend upon it , Sir , when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully . |
| 19 | ‘ It boggles my mind that everyone thinks they can pull the wool over the eyes of a company that 's had 30 years experience in dicking rock bands . |
| 20 | Has n't it crossed your mind that we will be missed , the others will be wondering what has happened ? |
| 21 | Er has it crossed your mind that it I 'd might not heard ? |
| 22 | It takes her mind off other things , " he said savagely , remembering the note the Madam had received offering her some of the stolen Irish Crown Jewels . |
| 23 | People are very understanding and really if you talk to people and have an interesting time , it takes your mind off yourself . |
| 24 | It takes your mind off how you feel . |
| 25 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |
| 26 | I do n't like to read because it takes my mind off myself . |
| 27 | The fact that the hulk was protected against daemonic intrusion piqued Jaq 's curiosity at the same time as it relieved his mind . |
| 28 | It settled his mind . |
| 29 | God , can it read my mind ? thought Rohmer . |
| 30 | ‘ Has it slipped your mind that the child has to go to school ? ’ |