Example sentences of "[pos pn] mind was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What really stands out in my mind was the homage that was instantly paid to a good poem and the individual who had written it . ’ |
| 2 | My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments . |
| 3 | On my visits I watched his development with delight but the occasion which stays in my mind was the following Christmas Day , a year from his arrival . |
| 4 | At the back of my mind was the feeling that I would bump into you in the street . |
| 5 | A major problem for those wishing to persuade Mrs Thatcher to change her mind was the time constraint imposed by the leadership election rules . |
| 6 | The least marked to her mind was the Leader . |
| 7 | But predominant in her mind was the unsettling effect her companion seemed to be having on her . |
| 8 | At the back of her mind was the thought that he might be with someone else . |
| 9 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 10 | She was taking eight months ' leave without pay from Coronation , but in the back of her mind was the odd feeling that she would n't be going back , and she did n't quite know what it meant . |
| 11 | She had faced a certain amount of humiliation again at the hands of that wretched Marie , but the thing that stayed in her mind was the feel of Alain 's arms and the tang of his skin . |
| 12 | But as she hurried up the stairs to the sanctuary of her bedroom , what filled her mind was the stark , appalling thought of the treachery she had so nearly perpetrated on herself . |
| 13 | Ruth wanted it never to end but always in the back of her mind was the thought that it must . |
| 14 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 15 | Emerging in his mind was the thought that he might become a writer . |
| 16 | His mind was the richest repository of the past : he had been a child oblate at Canterbury before the Conquest ; he had heard all the gossip of the older monks as a child , and he remembered as an adult all that he had heard . |
| 17 | Paramount in his mind was the thought of his daughter . |
| 18 | Somewhere in the back of his mind was the knowledge that Legion wanted the woman kept alive , but the sight of Kreig 's ears had given Ardamal a thirst , and he needed to slake it . |
| 19 | He did not have time now to investigate his own feelings , but somewhere at the back of his mind was the thought that he was , himself , no idealist . |