Example sentences of "his mind be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , his mind is on the great frosts of his youth , when the snow lay so deep on The Crown Green that they had to dig a trench to the shop door . |
| 2 | His mind is like cotton-wool . |
| 3 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 4 | and he may be and careless and just throws his clothes down everywhere but then his mind 's in the right place . |
| 5 | Oh my god his mind 's like a sieve . |
| 6 | The Colonel , his patron , his friend , in his mind was without bullshit , but tonight there was no warmth , no smile even . |
| 7 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 8 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 9 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 10 | But now his mind was on Harry Mack . |
| 11 | Beck sounded as if his mind was on other business . |
| 12 | Steve would have been steering , but his mind was on other things . |
| 13 | His mind was on other things , and she suddenly found herself back again thinking of Alain Lemarchand and his expression when she had moved forward . |
| 14 | Zoser served her politely but with an air of detachment , as if his mind was on higher things . |
| 15 | His mind was in overdrive . |
| 16 | His mind was in a whirl and he was worried . |
| 17 | His mind was in a fog . |
| 18 | His mind was in turmoil . |
| 19 | His body and his mind were about their different businesses . |
| 20 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |