Example sentences of "his mind for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 2 | The book helped him and satisfied his mind for the time . |
| 3 | Some phrases lay in his mind for years . |
| 4 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 5 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 6 | The German plans persisted in his mind for years , but that particular South African aspiration was transitory , because by his next letter he wrote ‘ Listen and attend a minute . |
| 7 | This was said without fear but with considerable surprise , as most certainly such a thought had not crossed his mind for months . |
| 8 | As we dropped down towards Gunnerside , rabbits exploded in all directions and Bill had so many to choose from he lay down confused , unable to make his mind up , looking at us pitifully as though we could make up his mind for him . |
| 9 | Having failed to seduce his late mother 's maid , he marries her , thus freeing his mind for more important matters . |
| 10 | Wolski was one of the fifty or so who survived the escape and the remaining months of the war and by a succession of chances so slight , so unpredictable , so arbitrary that they would banish from his mind for ever the belief that there was any sense or pattern to this life , he found his way to Britain in 1945 . |
| 11 | His mind for a long time before this crisis arose had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a Council of State … |
| 12 | His eyes flickered as he looked at her , and she knew he was searching his mind for a joke . |
| 13 | One sequence of entries , for instance , seemingly associates the words " aesthetic " and " tragedy " ; another connects Greek drama with " optimism and pessimism " , a new polarity destined to exercise his mind for years to come ; and another , after a list of topics that includes " development of tragedy " and " Lessing , Winckelmann " , offers a brief theoretical discussion of " development " that refers to " music " , " opera " , and another notion of significance for the future , " instinct " . |
| 14 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 15 | He paused , searching his mind for something else to say , something that might move the emphasis away from himself . |
| 16 | Harry , by contrast , had no intention of subsiding into forgetful slumber : he had far too much to occupy his mind for sleep to seem attractive . |
| 17 | It was pleasant not to have the complexities of crime on his mind for a change . |
| 18 | It made up his mind for him . |
| 19 | The swift understanding cleared his mind for a moment . |
| 20 | Now a doubt was creeping into his mind for the first time . |
| 21 | As he did so , he frantically searched his mind for something reassuring to say to the maniac in the back . |
| 22 | He could see from the changing mottle of the secretary 's complexion that Garvey had made up his mind for him . |
| 23 | He closed his mind for a silent prayer , but his thoughts kept returning to the danger that he and the woman now faced . |
| 24 | A relief worker from one of the region 's charities who has just returned from Somalia says the appalling suffering of women and children will remain etched on his mind for ever . |
| 25 | But there remained the problem which had been gnawing at his mind for months as he waited for his enemy to come home : how was he to get into the castle itself ? |
| 26 | I think Tony 's made up his mind for which he 's , school he 's he 's going to go to . |