Example sentences of "in my [adj] mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana was shocked by my attitude , but I was not in my right mind . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not in my right mind ; but do n't let that hurt you ! |
| 3 | I 'm thankful for my good health , you see , because apart from arthritis , you see , I 'm as well as anything and I hope I 'm still in my right mind , you see , but I , now and again , I forget names |
| 4 | A girl 's voice , soft and guarded , but touching a familiar chord in my befogged mind . |
| 5 | But seriously you deserve a good smacking for putting such naughty thoughts in my innocent mind . |
| 6 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 7 | So my cancer became a subject for discussion , not only in my own mind , but with and between my family and close friends . |
| 8 | That , in my own mind , though they can not be opened for the day to the public to see are gardens by comparison with which the most beautiful garden of this island is tawdry and unkempt . |
| 9 | I will feel easier in my own mind from now on . ’ |
| 10 | But when people like Norman Jay and Omar said they were into the track , it sort of backed up in my own mind that it was a safe tune — they 're not the sort of people who give you compliments just to make you smile . ’ |
| 11 | This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions . |
| 12 | There had never been any doubt in my own mind . |
| 13 | Sheringham , who hit 24 goals last season and scored Forest 's winner in their televised 1-0 clash against Liverpool at the City Ground on Sunday , says : ‘ I had virtually concluded negotiations over personal terms with Tottenham 's Terry Venables and in my own mind I had already joined Spurs . ’ |
| 14 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 15 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 16 | I can sill see in my own mind the ball knocking down the middle stump , and as Hearne walked past Lowry he said , ‘ This is quite unfair , Mr Lowry . ’ ’ |
| 17 | I am continually reappraising in my own mind their strengths while looking for their weaknesses ( although there are depressingly few of these visible ) . |
| 18 | In my own mind I had valued the things at 4000 roubles each . |
| 19 | In Reg. v. Walhein ( 1952 ) 36 Cr.App.R. 167 , before the days of majority verdicts , after the jury had returned to court and one juror had said : ‘ I can not in my own mind find him guilty of the charge which prosecuting counsel have not proved , ’ the commissioner at the Central Criminal Court then said : |
| 20 | No it was er it was er oh how can I say er I used me head and er , if you follow what I mean , and imagination and er I could envisage what , perhaps , people wanted , it was in my own mind and I 'd make it up some way or another . |
| 21 | ‘ I know she came to Oxford and I 'm certain in my own mind that she came to Breakspear College . |
| 22 | I am quite clear in my own mind on this . |
| 23 | Once I 'm absolutely clear in my own mind I 'll put my plan to you — but here 's the encampment and unless I 'm mistaken that 's Boz coming out to meet us . ’ |
| 24 | Thomas 's view , he noted , was the ‘ same as is forming in my own mind ’ . |
| 25 | Mason Colley has been … approaching me these six weeks , and now I 'm settled in my own mind , I ca n't think you 'll stand in the way ? ’ |
| 26 | I am not entirely clear in my own mind what that last sentence really means , but from what I have written so far you can readily see that the movement towards Euthanasia is to the fore . |
| 27 | I came to Congress with my contribution to this debate firmly fixed in my own mind , but unsure of the view of the leadership of our union , given the views quoted to them in the press as their own . |
| 28 | In my own mind I ca n't separate his death from his father 's . ’ |
| 29 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 30 | Well , the thing is what 's happening , I thought we might spend some time on if wanted , what I wanted to do was to be sure in my own mind that by the second week I could put up a master sheet with all the headings of what you were doing , that 's got ta be done . |