Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've a good mind to go down to Mrs Wright 's now and get to the bottom of this , ’ said his Dad as Philip went upstairs . |
| 2 | I 've a good mind to go to the Bodega Bar with ye … they sell alcoholic beverages . ’ |
| 3 | I 've a good mind never to allow you in the Park again ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've a good mind to get its number ! ’ |
| 5 | In fact , I 've a good mind to tell Sam on you . |
| 6 | " I 've a good mind — " |
| 7 | And there was a chap there — he was a sort of chapel preacher — and he says : ‘ Oh , ’ he say , ‘ I 've had enough on it ! ’ , he say , ‘ I 've a good mind to shoot myself , ’ he say , ‘ with this lot . |
| 8 | I 've a good mind to ask him for it after all . " |
| 9 | ‘ I 've a good mind to go and have it out with him here and now . |
| 10 | I 've a good mind to give it a miss . |
| 11 | So she said I 've a good mind to write to the manager so Bobby said you wan na leave well alone , forget he said . |
| 12 | I have a logical mind , she decided . |
| 13 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 14 | Indeed , my future mother-in-law defended me against criticism in this regard , with the quelling reply : ‘ She has a trained mind , and nothing to unlearn ! ’ |
| 15 | That led , therefore , to Princess Elizabeth being received as Queen , and like her father , she had a scholarly mind ; also she had some exceptional advisers , including William Cecil , Lord Burghley , who became her Secretary of State and served her loyally for over forty years . |
| 16 | Mother Francis says that if you have a questioning mind you get to know all the answers . ’ |
| 17 | You have a suspicious mind , Michael Riven , but my own goes along with it . |
| 18 | We believed that what we were doing did n't infringe on the characters of any group of people , and therefore we had a clear mind . |
| 19 | Just as we find animal perception hard to imagine because we have a different mind structure to other creatures , so too do we have difficulty understanding their language . |
| 20 | Milosevic carries with him a great charge of evil , but he has a limited mind ; but precisely because he has a limited mind , he was very impressed by that Academy document . |
| 21 | Milosevic carries with him a great charge of evil , but he has a limited mind ; but precisely because he has a limited mind , he was very impressed by that Academy document . |
| 22 | He has a singular mind and what is on it at the moment , seems , in our time of stagnation , to speak for a lost England ; and England which for the moment has been buried beneath the slogans of ideology and the jargon of modish materialism and press vendettas and bile . |
| 23 | He 's quite plump and I suppose quite elderly , but he has a wonderful mind . |
| 24 | My own father ( 1897-1940 ) was one of those who , although he had a brilliant mind , came from a large , poor , working-class family . |
| 25 | He had a progressive mind , favoured women 's rights to the vote and to university education , supported trade unionism , and advocated bimetallism . |