Example sentences of "[pos pn] mind 's " in BNC.
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| 31 | You did n't have to have the soul of a poet to conjure up what could have been ; in my mind 's eye I had a vision of Templars in their faceless conical helmets , red and white crosses on their black cloaks , moving across the island at the dead of night , the barges being soundlessly poled whilst , at prow and stern , huge cresset torches spluttered and flared in the darkness . |
| 32 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 33 | I see him sluggish and stoned in my mind 's eye , his ginger hair and heavy lidded eyes , his clammy , groping hands and nothing to call his own . |
| 34 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |
| 35 | How I love to recall their looks to my mind 's eye … |
| 36 | I 'd like at least to have a picture in my mind 's eye of where everything is . ’ |
| 37 | She , her body prompting her still , with no finality in her , turned her world over and over again in her mind 's restless fingers . |
| 38 | She wanted to fix this countryside , in all its detail , in her mind 's eye and never lose it . |
| 39 | It was this nightmare image of panic and despair that she kept in her mind 's eye as Simon talked his way confidently through his own philosophy of life . |
| 40 | The old familiar image of that desperately clutching hand , rising up out of the waves and then sinking again for ever , created itself in her mind 's eye . |
| 41 | She could see Miss Henrietta yet in her mind 's eye , so young and lovely , laughing up into the face of her adoring Captain Cook . |
| 42 | Already she could visualise the lay-out — ‘ The Other Side of Fashion ’ she 'd entitled it in her mind 's eye when she 'd discussed it with Nick . |
| 43 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 44 | In her mind 's eye , from this distance away , it seemed infinitely more attractive than ever their London home had been . |
| 45 | Perhaps her nearsense completed for her — in her mind 's eye — those abbreviated gestures so that she perceived the weaving of a skein of death . |
| 46 | She liked his quiet manner , his bookish looks , his thin hands emerging from the voluminous sleeves of jerseys knitted for him by his mother who plainly , in her mind 's eye , saw him as a strapping youth of six foot two . |
| 47 | In her mind 's eye she saw the assassin 's mouth open and close , and on them read the syllables of her name . |
| 48 | A quarter of a century later , it is a moment she can still picture in her mind 's eye and she can still summon up the painful feelings of rejection , breach of trust and isolation that the break-up of her parents ’ marriage signified to her . |
| 49 | Ruth was silent , Adam 's spellbound face very clear in her mind 's eye . |
| 50 | Ruth looked doubtfully out to sea , wondering what he meant ; but then she began to see something , more with her mind 's eye than in reality , though she knew at once it was very real . |
| 51 | When her mind 's eye tired of the ghosts of memory , her gaze skipped above her bed to the ethereal mobiles whose charm was always changing . |
| 52 | ’ In her mind 's eye she saw the face of her father , and her heart was heavy . |
| 53 | A series of images passed before her mind 's eye . |
| 54 | She saw in her mind 's eye rude naked women and flames as upright and stiff as those on the covers of boxes of fireworks . |
| 55 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |
| 56 | In her mind 's eye , she flayed the red man of his sparse pelt and hung it up to dry over a pole in her garden and then used it — as roofing for her animals ' hutch perhaps , or a tunic for herself . |
| 57 | And in her mind 's eye , she saw Mrs Plumptry . |
| 58 | Her life was uneventful , so that what she thought about naturally was what she saw with her eyes , or in her mind 's eye . |
| 59 | She is blind , so each contestant must tell her their adventures in great detail , so that she can see everything clearly in her mind 's eye . |
| 60 | She concentrated on the face in her mind 's eye , the single eye that saw in the dark and coloured things in . |