Example sentences of "[pron] mind [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Good ; it 'll take my mind off the other itch . ) |
| 2 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 3 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 4 | How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ? |
| 5 | He admitted : ‘ There was doubt in my mind after the third round and I would have preferred to win by going head to head with Nick Price . |
| 6 | ‘ What I am conscious of when I see the colour blue ’ , says Mill ‘ is a feeling of blue colour ’ — a feeling excited in my mind by the outward object . |
| 7 | He looked like a man she had seen about the village who drove a green truck , but the name she associated in her mind with the monk-robed man was that of an almost universally adored God . |
| 8 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 9 | It 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind at the last minute . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 11 | Cooking lunch for a guest might at least take her mind off the intractable problem of Samantha for a while . |
| 12 | There was still almost half an hour left before Luke Calder was due , time she would prefer to spend doing something to take her mind off the coming evening . |
| 13 | She did n't want to see Joe or anyone else ; she wanted to close her mind to the outside world and crawl back into the safe , controllable environment of her imagination . |
| 14 | She gave Eva plenty of scope to prepare her mind for the whole matter of the interpretation of the gospel in Africa , and how to make the good news relevant in a non-Christian environment . |
| 15 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 16 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 17 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 18 | I tried to keep his mind off the real tension before a major championship gets started . |
| 19 | This took his mind off the painful subject of Zambia . |
| 20 | For example , a person working in a room with or without other people can easily develop the misconception that he has a complete picture in his mind of the physical environment . |
| 21 | Now a doubt was creeping into his mind for the first time . |
| 22 | She was nervous that he might change his mind at the last minute , but he did not do so . |
| 23 | All the techniques in taekwondo are flexible and allow the practitioner to change his mind at the last minute as to which block or punch will provide him with the best defence or counter-attack . |
| 24 | Once a boy was almost carted away but the Headmaster changed his mind at the last moment . |
| 25 | Immacolata said it glowed prettily , the light was flattering , and this recollection passed across his mind at the same time as he registered the woman 's contorted face , her blotched cheeks and veined eyes , and began to hear what she was saying : |
| 26 | Southerton , writing under a byline , would probably have been able to speak his mind about the general atmosphere , although I did not know that his attitude to bodyline would be . |
| 27 | Speaking his mind about the medical profession , even waging war on the architectural establishment , was a very different matter from denouncing the government 's attitude to pollution . |
| 28 | He was busily pruning his nails with a pair of scissors and trying to make up his mind about the proper degree of flippancy to adopt for his conversation with Madeleine , when the romance of his afternoon was suddenly eclipsed by the strident voice of his father , grating like a rusty wheel on a dry axle . |
| 29 | ‘ What kind of a time are you going to have , stuck here inside these four walls with no one to take your mind off the pouring rain ? |
| 30 | Do n't block your mind to the seeming impossibility of the task . |