Example sentences of "[pron] mind the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | But Sauvignon does not come better than this and to my mind the del Cero Sauvignon has more grace , character and length than the much-vaunted Cloudy Bay Sauvignon from New Zealand , which is comparably priced . |
| 3 | To my mind the yard , foot and inch are as antiquated as the rod , pole and perch . ’ |
| 4 | To my mind the Luo are on a par with the Welsh because everyone sings . |
| 5 | In my mind the whole time there is the simple question , ‘ What is it the music is supposed to say ? ’ |
| 6 | At that moment there came into my mind the image of that little guy with a moustache and I thought , dammit . |
| 7 | Although the coverage is not comprehensive , and many reviews on various aspects of cage hydrocarbon chemistry are available , to my mind the real value of this book lies in the ideas that it generates , the insights into the chemical developments it provides , and the historical connections that it reveals . |
| 8 | I study the swim , working out in my mind the best way of tackling it . |
| 9 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
| 10 | To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with . |
| 11 | For example , all through my service , I had in my mind the difference between ‘ false pretences ’ and ‘ stealing by trick ’ . |
| 12 | This notion is supposedly supported by the concurrent decline of major herbivore groups with that of their food plants , but to my mind the example she used in his article are naive and far from convincing . |
| 13 | This would be prefaced by asparagus , a traditional choice for weddings in my family ; and followed by raspberries , to my mind the most exquisite of summer fruits , served either pure and simple with a little cream , or combined with redcurrants and packed into a bread-lined basin to make summer pudding . |
| 14 | To my mind the SRV 's overall appearance is let down by the fingerboard . |
| 15 | A recent auction sale brought to my mind the fascinating subject of tally sticks , which could make a wonderfully interesting and historically interesting collection . |
| 16 | But I was conscious of the sexual deviancies in the story , and I had fixed in my mind the idea of making the movie asexual . |
| 17 | She had to wear a brace for many years before she was well enough to walk with two sticks , and I still carry in my mind the picture of her trying to walk around the room and on the landing , hobbling in her iron braces . |
| 18 | To my mind the answer is that there must always be at least a minimum of skill for us to speak of an artistic achievement . |
| 19 | To my mind the answer is simple : when a critical approach is accepted as a legitimate element of social studies teaching ( and surely a critical approach is not one which is to be avoided ) then textbooks will be obliged to present alternatives , rather than just describing the sexist norm and failing to evaluate it . |
| 20 | There are eight other recordings of the Barber Piano Sonata in the catalogue , but to my mind the most thrilling and satisfying is that by this artist , who created the work in 1949 : his quicksilver delicacy in the scherzo is unsurpassed , and the dazzling virtuosity of the fugal finale makes one want to stand and cheer . |
| 21 | There was some beautiful Sevres porcelain too , but to my mind the Meissen porcelain was exceptional . |
| 22 | When it came to it , the fish sold as lanisticola looked , to the discerning eye , quite different — the face was yellow rather than blue , the tail was heavily banded rather than streaked along the rays , and — to my mind the most important point — the upper head profile was quite different : that of the ‘ real ’ livingstonii being very like Ps. zebra , ie a humped forehead above a concave snout , while ‘ lanisticola ’ — as convex from upper lip to top of head , rather like Ps. tropheops . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , my dear , but your sweet face has entirely driven from my mind the details of your file . |
| 24 | To my mind the only possibility of solving this problem lies in a large European prospective randomised screening study comparing screening with no screening and using mortality from prostatic cancer as its major end point . |
| 25 | To my mind the process of " drilling " involves rotation ; shell penetration in gastropods does not-so I will use " boring " . |
| 26 | In my mind the trees were so large and tall and different . |
| 27 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 28 | That 's National Savings , and to my mind the only good issue they 've got at the moment , and er once you get with index-linked certificates , they were originally the granny bonds that were launched er in the early er late seventies , early eighties . |
| 29 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 30 | To my mind the acquiring and delivering of the wrappers was certainly part of the consideration in these cases , and I see no good reason for drawing a distinction between these and other cases . |