Example sentences of "[prep] his mind 's " in BNC.
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| 31 | Poor child — he can see them in his mind 's eye , but how can he express them in paint ? |
| 32 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |
| 33 | He saw his mother in his mind 's eye , her arms red to the elbows from doing other people 's washing and ironing , her knees permanently swollen from scrubbing floors . |
| 34 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 35 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 36 | The image in his mind 's eye was as sharp as ever . |
| 37 | Thomas saw Sara in his mind 's eye . |
| 38 | The sublime memory of that first descent into the moist , mossy darkness of the jungle earlier in the day blazed again suddenly in his mind 's eye for a moment , but then his numbness left him in a furious rush and a piercing surge of purity and sweetness flashed through the rank darkness of the hut . |
| 39 | He could see the big man in his mind 's eye even now , lifting Berdichev and breaking him . |
| 40 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 41 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |
| 42 | In his mind 's eye the epic narrator visualizes the personages and events that he is to describe , and sees them as something independent of and outside himself . |
| 43 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 44 | They were too small and sleek , compared to the ones in his mind 's eye . |
| 45 | Course and landmarks were clear in his mind 's eye , Holy Island in clear reality below him . |
| 46 | He let it come erect , then looked at it , with Hannele in his mind 's eye simultaneously . |
| 47 | A true watchmaker has foresight : he designs his cogs and springs , and plans their interconnections , with a future purpose in his mind 's eye . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | He walks beyond fatigue , beyond the limits of endurance and the frontiers of self , and somewhere along this path he loses his balance , falls off the edge of his sanity , and out here beyond his mind 's rim he sees , for the first and only time in his life , a vision . |
| 50 | He relied on his mind 's eye and ear — and nose . |
| 51 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |