Example sentences of "his mind was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Emerging in his mind was the thought that he might become a writer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Paramount in his mind was the thought of his daughter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |