Example sentences of "mind 's [noun] saw " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now my mind 's eye saw Aunt Louise 's little resting place : but the inscription ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But her mind 's eye saw only one face , one man . |