Example sentences of "[noun] in his mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he still sat still , puzzling , the scene of the murder running like an old movie in his mind . |
| 2 | Yet the hunter , walking with gun on arm , thoughts only of killing and murder in his mind and his intent clearly expressed in his body language , is shunned in fear by all creatures who can . |
| 3 | But the prosecution says Jones is a clever , arrogant liar who had murder in his mind . |
| 4 | Miles felt the confusion in his mind grow into a relentless horror . |
| 5 | If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind . |
| 6 | So with these words in his mind , these snippets of words , he he he sat down . |
| 7 | He had left his home at Yester in the Lammermuirs in a blizzard , with pictures in his mind , and photographs in his pocket . |
| 8 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 9 | Paramount in his mind was the thought of his daughter . |
| 10 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 11 | — a terrible sacrifice — but no amount of lonely pacing could throw up any alternative in his mind . |
| 12 | As he spoke , the teacher saw Prince Richard in his mind 's eye and recalled the authority in the imperious carriage of the boy 's small head on his narrow but habitually braced shoulders . |
| 13 | The name echoed for a second in his mind . |
| 14 | He gave the banner a second glance , fixing its curves and lines in his mind , storing the sight so that he could draw it some time . |
| 15 | With a military model of management in his mind , the individual manager is working on the assumption that conflict within the ‘ ranks ’ , so to speak , is impossible because all the jobs and statuses have been defined and all who take roles within that framework will be committed to maintaining the order of the enterprise which is engaged in ‘ battle ’ with a hostile environment , which is persecuting in its demands . |
| 16 | All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible . |
| 17 | He had turned into Kensington High Street now , fantasy in his mind turning into fact . |
| 18 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn held much of his work in his mind while he was in a labour camp . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was only one question in his mind when he read the papers : had they taken the story far enough ? |
| 21 | This caught the interviewer unawares , because he was already rehearsing his next question in his mind . |
| 22 | But Williams said there was no question in his mind about Hill 's ability despite the mounting pressure on him to deliver a victory . |
| 23 | She pushed him away , but she was laughing in relief , and he responded by taking a firmer hold , laughing with her , briefly forgetting the soreness of his back and the tortures in his mind . |
| 24 | He seemed to have dismissed their disturbing conversation to some distant recess in his mind . |
| 25 | He spoke suddenly , the question rising up out of the confusion and indignation in his mind . |
| 26 | Then something clicked into place in his mind . |
| 27 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
| 28 | The ‘ photograph ’ of the burial mound in his mind 's eye , still so sharp and detailed , had convinced him that therein lay something of importance . |
| 29 | To this day Lewis had a picture in his mind of how his son had looked walking into the dining room ( or dining area of the living room really ) wearing jeans of course , jeans with ragged hems , and a collarless tunic garment , tie-dyed with coloured inks . |
| 30 | ‘ Rob prefers to come out with the complete picture in his mind , the game-plan mapped out . |