Example sentences of "his [det] mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michelangelo 's works have a strong , peculiar and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely , and that mind so rich and abundant , that he never needed , or seems to disdain , to look abroad for foreign help . |
| 2 | As Pacey said of Dudek — he could never say it of Layton ! — ‘ ( his strength ) lies in his serious attempt to give as purely as possible the experience which is pure and isolated in his own mind , ’ a view which is offended by the notion of ‘ popular culture ’ and the torch-carrying it requires . |
| 3 | ‘ Dr Runcie , to his eternal credit , remained his friend , though he had read the preface some weeks before and was certain in his own mind of its authorship . |
| 4 | This ‘ may be known to be so by any man 's experience , that will but examine his own mind ’ . |
| 5 | Ultimately , he came to realize that this persecution complex existed only in his own mind , and that his unpopularity in Barbados arose from his walking out on them . |
| 6 | As she turned away with a heavy sigh , he heard her say , almost sadly : ‘ The boy knows his own mind . |
| 7 | He found that he could direct a free horse to choose the correct feed bucket — the one containing oats whilst the others were empty — by visualising in his own mind the oats lying in the bottom of the bucket . |
| 8 | The nervous man who 16 months ago called for ‘ a country at ease with itself ’ seemed at last to have achieved that ease in his own mind . |
| 9 | On the other hand , there are tables and graphs and a methodical list of the alternatives , so the intelligent and diligent reader can make up his own mind . |
| 10 | Nicholson was always quite adamant in his own mind that his films did not encourage drug taking . |
| 11 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 12 | His intentions were clear enough in his own mind , but it was decidedly difficult to make a beginning , particularly when Dimity was so busy . |
| 13 | Only when forced into it by Nutty , by the fear of losing Firelight , had he come to accept it as such in his own mind . |
| 14 | If you have done your part correctly the subordinate should by now have all the information necessary to make up his own mind . |
| 15 | At the same time , he was entering with a new singleness of purpose the creative landscape of his own mind , and sensed already that what he might achieve in the months ahead would surpass anything which had resulted from two very public years in Bristol . |
| 16 | as if running away from his own mind the tragic Haffey emigrated to Australia where Scottish exiles still see him as a figure of unrivalled fun . |
| 17 | I expect each one will take from these misty illusions , creations congenial to his own mind . |
| 18 | If the reader has any doubts in his own mind as to the mechanics of the ECM ( and foreign exchange market ) , a revision of the main points in this chapter ( and Chapter 3 ) should be made . |
| 19 | It seems to me that he tries the Bible before the bar of his own mind rather than the other way around . |
| 20 | In fact , ’ Corbett now tried to clear the doubts in his own mind , ‘ why did n't the Queen send out a search-party for her husband ? |
| 21 | At last , as though he had answered it in his own mind , he said ‘ What is the unicorn ? ’ |
| 22 | Iain feels the effects of the alcohol drunk with the meal but it has made him feel good , giving him a sense — true or not — that he can cope , that he can deal with the way his own mind and from there be able to deal with other people 's . |
| 23 | Barnett will however know in his own mind that he has to replace the 2,000 runs scored by the departed Azharuddin if Derbyshire are to be effective challengers . |
| 24 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 25 | Montgomery was n't sure , but in his own mind there were few more melancholy sights than a widower trying to manage on his own . |
| 26 | Or maybe he had n't wanted to raise the lethal notion of love in his own mind . |
| 27 | He lived in his own mind , he really did . |
| 28 | But he knew his own mind , did Gabriel , and persevered so that the holly adorned the bottom edge of the beam like a curving curtain pelmet . |
| 29 | Wordsworth explains how his own mind slowly arrived at maturity , how he dedicated himself to poetry , and how after being diverted by Cambridge , France and Godwinism , his imagination was restored , a vision of the eternal Mind granted to him on Snowdon ( Prelude 1805 , xiii , 1–119 ) and his poetic vocation assured . |
| 30 | The Prelude was meant to illustrate the growth of his own mind , so as to show his fitness for such a project . |