Example sentences of "mind 's [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enemy is the mind 's tendency to systematize , sew up experience , place a distance between itself and immediacy . |
| 2 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 3 | He stored it up — the mind 's ability to store is inexhaustible — and wrote it down when he was finally released . |
| 4 | This process is like the creative process of mind where ideas and images stored in the mind 's vats join together and change through time and become the matter of poetry . |
| 5 | J.L. Lowes in his book The Road to Xanadu has given an account of how the mind 's vats work . |
| 6 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |
| 7 | Now my mind 's eye saw Aunt Louise 's little resting place : but the inscription ? |
| 8 | His mind 's eye saw again , with the sharp clarity of a six-year-old , the battered galloping horses with flaring nostrils , the glittering brass posts , twisted like giant barley sugar sticks , the dizzy red and yellow swingboats and the snakes of black flex that coiled across the bruised grass of Thrush Green waiting to ensnare the feet of the bedazzled . |
| 9 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |
| 10 | Frederica 's quick mind 's eye saw what Crowe saw : a figure broomstick-thin against the dune , splay-footed in sensible sandals , thin-shouldered in the provincial flowered sundress , with its white pique triangles below the straps , butterfly-bowed on the small breasts , plain , yes , but not shockingly or brilliantly plain , smart in Calverley , unexceptionable in Nîmes and Bargemon , dowdy in this company . |
| 11 | But her mind 's eye saw only one face , one man . |
| 12 | Almost certainly , the image in your mind 's eye involves those billiard balls you learned about at school . |
| 13 | I can see them in my mind 's eye rising and dancing slowly around the room , their bodies undulating in a controlled exuberance as if lifted out of the world of motor cars , rockets and computerised mentalities into some universal heartbeat , some rhythm of the day , of the night , of the sea , of life . |
| 14 | Paul bore all this in mind , looking down at Emily ; he could see her in his mind 's eye presiding over tea-parties at Oxford , saying the right thing to professors ' wives ; playing her part as his own wife , while he continued with his work uninterrupted except — he dared not think of it now — for the nights . |
| 15 | In the polling booth your mind 's eye sees the deductions on the payslip more vividly than the hospital queues . |
| 16 | He 'd had thirty five years ' experience , he was looking at th and and in his mind 's eye putting the jigsaw puzzle into the van as it were to work out how much space it would take . |
| 17 | Always in your mind 's eye see yourself as you stretch either upwards or towards your sides , ‘ growing ’ at least two inches out of the hip . |
| 18 | Her steps had slowed , as if in sympathy with her mind 's reluctance to confront the looming moment . |