Example sentences of "in [noun] ['s] mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind . |
| 2 | It was that last remark that echoed in Kelly 's mind as Boardwalk was loaded into the stalls . |
| 3 | Objective number one , then , in Nizan 's mind after 1916 was to avoid the terrible fate of his father . |
| 4 | Two factors , one personal , one educational , were to conspire to undermine the credibility of the educational solution in Nizan 's mind . |
| 5 | The political solution was neither definitively adopted , nor even clearly formulated in Nizan 's mind at this stage . |
| 6 | ( My italics ) The 1934 experience would consequently appear to represent a watershed in Nizan 's political development to the extent that the facile picture of an idealised Soviet society engaged in a harmonious process of social construction was unquestionably supplanted in Nizan 's mind by a picture of Soviet men and women struggling together , but ultimately alone and prey to thoughts of death and solitude , for the advancement of the great socialist endeavour . |
| 7 | Rather than speaking of the seeds of ideological doubt sown in Nizan 's mind , it is more appropriate to envisage 1934 as a necessary stage in Nizan 's deepening awareness of social reality ; the gradual abandonment , in other words , of a stylised and exaggerated picture of reality , and a progressive movement towards a recognition of the unpredictability and complexity of the social world . |
| 8 | The growing threat of fascism after Hitler 's accession to power in Germany in 1933 was to transform perceptions of the Soviet state not simply in Nizan 's mind but in the minds of a whole generation of left-wing intellectuals . |
| 9 | There undoubtedly existed in Nizan 's mind a clearly articulated political ethic during this period , an ethic which divided the world between those forces defending peace , culture , oppressed nations , democratic rights and freedoms , and those forces advocating war , barbarism , the destruction of culture , the oppression of nation states and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms . |
| 10 | The anti-fascist struggle was synonymous in Nizan 's mind with the peace movement . |
| 11 | Texts such as " Secrets de l'Espagne " , and " Renaissance de l'Espagne " illustrate the intimate relationship that exists in Nizan 's mind between his activities as a political reporter and his activities as a political novelist . |
| 12 | The solitary death of Gerda Taro in July 1937 came to symbolise in Nizan 's mind this tragic development . |
| 13 | It might appear that these two objectives are mutually incompatible , and simply betray a naive confusion in Nizan 's mind between the ideological and the aesthetic . |
| 14 | This was perhaps what was in Temple 's mind when he wrote that ‘ whereas in communities governed by native institutions the white man , qua white man , is regarded with great respect , in those districts where the native administrations have been swept away he is regarded as a person of no very great significance ’ . |
| 15 | All the images that had been in Patrick 's mind while he drove up to the Barbican the previous morning formed again in his imagination . |
| 16 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 17 | If there had been any last doubts in Pascoe 's mind about whether Charlie Singer might be Zeno , Singer 's tone of voice would have dispelled them . |
| 18 | Suddenly the backing of the jib connected in Trent 's mind . |
| 19 | If it were now fixed in Kenamun 's mind that Surere was the killer , another murder would be all that would save Merymose 's neck . |
| 20 | But little light in Morse 's mind . |
| 21 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 22 | I think it was all in Kenneth 's mind and I think Kenneth 's hang-up about his backside and his obsession with cleanliness would have made physical love very difficult for him . ’ |
| 23 | But the affectionate insult remained trapped in Doyle 's mind . |
| 24 | It was a long speech , but only one point stood out in Sophie 's mind . |
| 25 | An image of Barbs rose unbidden in Scarlet 's mind : wide-eyed and frank with the spurious and shallow candour that belonged so particularly to those citizens of the USA who had undergone analysis . |
| 26 | In Enzo 's mind , there is no one else at his level , so that any such pretensions are just lèse majest é'; , and lèse majest é'; , we know , is just a step up from insolence , and who does this little Austrian think he is ? |
| 27 | She dimly perceived the terrible conflict that went on in Johnny 's mind between the dark side of his nature and the knowledge of how he should behave — of the actions expected of him because , as he would have put it , he was a Gentleman . |
| 28 | Another flash was going off in Catriona 's mind . |
| 29 | It is certainly different in Freud 's mind . |
| 30 | His words set up a buzz in Sylvie 's mind . |