Example sentences of "my 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 .
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