Example sentences of "[pos pn] mind [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 2 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 3 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 4 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 5 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |
| 6 | My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar . |
| 7 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 8 | Frowning , she let her mind drift back to the events of two years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 10 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 11 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 12 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 13 | Her mind skimmed back to the dinner on Friday night . |
| 14 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 15 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 16 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 17 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 18 | His mind swung back to the Forest he had left so many years before . |
| 19 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 20 | His mind stretched out over the deserted fields and the desolate dukes to the wide moon-bleached sands of the Wash and the creeping fringes of the North Sea . |
| 21 | His mind slipped back to the carvings under the chess table . |
| 22 | He laid the cross down and his mind flew back to the day his sisters were born … . |
| 23 | Spruce allowed his mind to run back over the meeting with the Bishop , Archdeacon and Miss Braithwaite . |
| 24 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
| 25 | His mind reeled back from the effort . |