Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] mind 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I close my eyes , I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and that bright red tip-tank carves its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's eye ’ . |
| 2 | But when I close my eyes , strain my stomach and clench my fist I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and I see that bright red tip tank carve its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's sky and remember . |
| 3 | The events of the past week raced past his mind 's eye in a matter of seconds , the mental images flickering before him in rapid succession like a movie trailer . |
| 4 | I looked at it with my mind 's eye and I thought , ‘ ’ What can this be ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her steps had slowed , as if in sympathy with her mind 's reluctance to confront the looming moment . |
| 7 | She conjured wonderful colourful pictures for a boy to see with his mind 's eye , her voice pure and confident , her memory pouring out hundreds of lines of poetry in a faultless , almost hypnotic flow . |
| 8 | The lights are playing tricks with your mind 's eye . |
| 9 | Tearing the spirits from my mind 's edge and from under … . |
| 10 | I see her in my mind 's eye always in a Fair Isle jersey . |
| 11 | It was her face chiefly that I saw brightening and fading away in my mind 's eye . |
| 12 | Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes , and stuffed omelettes , and steak pies with lovely gravy:I have in my mind 's eye a picture of her , sitting in a corner with some child on her lap , and the usual dreamy expression on her face . |
| 13 | Merely by shutting his door if it was open , North would add to the intrigue of meetings : ‘ and when the meeting was over , I still could n't understand why the door was shut and what the intrigue was ’ said a visiting official , puzzled ; ‘ it was in my mind 's eye a social call . ’ |
| 14 | In my case , and I am sure I am not alone in this , I can picture in my mind 's eye every summit I have reached in a long life without confusion of identity . |
| 15 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 16 | In my mind 's eye , your body is liberally smeared with a mixture of walnut oil and Nutella spread . |
| 17 | In my mind 's eye I see him as he was , complete with bowler-hat and aquiline nose . |
| 18 | I can see them in my mind 's eye even now . |
| 19 | In my mind 's eye , I see grey-faced men and women going to work on Friday morning . |
| 20 | I 've never had any difficulty sleeping and I try to stay awake long enough to see the cancer in my mind 's eye . |
| 21 | Squealing mice seemed bedded in my ears , and green hoppity things abounded , but right smack in my mind 's eye were two teams of digitised Ice Hockey players fighting it out in front of a packed stadium . |
| 22 | I can see them in my mind 's eye rising and dancing slowly around the room , their bodies undulating in a controlled exuberance as if lifted out of the world of motor cars , rockets and computerised mentalities into some universal heartbeat , some rhythm of the day , of the night , of the sea , of life . |
| 23 | Although I can see the whole thing unrolling in my mind 's eye like a silent film , I ca n't really be precise about where everyone was and that sort of thing . ’ |
| 24 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 25 | This image stays in my mind 's eye as the unequivocal focus of attention . |
| 26 | My priorities in my mind 's eye is better . |
| 27 | I 'm quite sure I saw it , I 've got a sort of picture in my mind 's eye . |
| 28 | I remember nothing there except a girl in the top class , who was fair-haired and had a bright complexion , and I see her now in my mind 's eye outstretched , lying upon her back on the floor . |
| 29 | I can see in my mind 's eye how the avenue of chestnuts was alight with red and white candles . |
| 30 | In my mind 's eye , I imagined her nestling warm and soft in the palms of my hands , trustingly accepting morsels of moistened wafer from between my lips , maybe cooing a little — not to say thank you , I 'm not daft enough to think that — because she would be so happy . |