Example sentences of "[pron] mind [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Good ; it 'll take my mind off the other itch . ) |
| 2 | I stood by the phone prodding away at my mind with the unanswerable rationalizations , wondering why I did n't feel happier and better now I 'd decided . |
| 3 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 4 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 5 | How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | She forced her mind through the labyrinthine sentences of Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida until her eyes were bloodshot and her head ached . |
| 9 | Maybe it would change her mind about the great Prince Sabatini , maybe she 'd ask her papa to marry her off to someone who believed in a woman 's right to decency and respect . |
| 10 | The sounds mingled in her mind with the harsh cries of the birds as she waited for Sybil to pick up the phone again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 13 | It 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind at the last minute . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 15 | She stifled the admission that they had to talk about something — anything — to take her mind off the contradictory emotions that stirred inside her , and managed a casual shrug . |
| 16 | Cooking lunch for a guest might at least take her mind off the intractable problem of Samantha for a while . |
| 17 | Ruth supposed it was Mrs Peterson 's way of taking her mind off the sad events of last week . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 24 | I tried to keep his mind off the real tension before a major championship gets started . |
| 25 | This took his mind off the painful subject of Zambia . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble , like a marriage … might … force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects , and to those only . |
| 28 | Lord Justice Watkins said Mr Bartle applied his mind to the correct principles of law and applied them in a manner which could not be faulted . |
| 29 | Furthermore , it gave him an excellent excuse not to apply his mind to the dismal subjects rearmament , the war in Spain , relations with Hitler , the distressed areas the weight of which had built up during his absence . |
| 30 | Now a doubt was creeping into his mind for the first time . |