Example sentences of "his mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-nine of the prisoners have already died , Pilot Mohammed El Shamey has lost his mind , one has taken his own life . |
| 2 | has brought together , accumulated and assimilated by means of the physical materials of his art a host of desires , intentions , and conditions coming from all regions of his mind and being . |
| 3 | The Levi who emerged from a regime of cruelty and humiliation with his judgement intact , his mind not closed , neither vengeful nor forgetful , and who wrote a noble and rational book about what had happened to him , is mentioned only cursorily and as if concessively by Fernanda Eberstadt . |
| 4 | And fit his mind to death , for his soul 's rest . |
| 5 | And Goldberg , pushing back his chair , stepping over the piles of papers and magazines littering the floor of his study , scanned the bookcase , found what he wanted , brought the book back to his desk , licked his middle finger and turned the pages , found the passage and copied carefully into the margin : only his mind remains unchanged . |
| 6 | Unity in his mind of architecture , music , astronomy , geology . |
| 7 | The childish words went through and through his mind , blotting out all coherent thought . |
| 8 | Perhaps this was why , uncharacteristically , he burst out aloud with the thought that at last chased the nursery rhyme momentarily from his mind . |
| 9 | Henry cast his mind back over the evening . |
| 10 | Henry confessed it was something that had n't crossed his mind before . |
| 11 | Henry cast his mind back to the small talk of a small town . |
| 12 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ said Henry , a thought beginning to burgeon in his mind . |
| 13 | Henry Tyler cast his mind back to the fatal evening . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah , so that 's the way the wind blows , is it ? ’ said Henry , his mind beginning to stray . |
| 15 | For one thing , I was genuinely upset by what had happened ; for another , I knew it was pointless expecting him to change his mind . |
| 16 | This is because he has recently practised safety procedures for almost every conceivable emergency , and they are therefore fresh in his mind . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In his mind Cameron continued the argument throughout the meal . |
| 19 | Menzies struggled to stop the racing of his mind and sort out the options coolly . |
| 20 | The conflicting thoughts gnawed at his mind like wasps at a timber . |
| 21 | He focused his mind still more sharply and some lines came out clear : |
| 22 | Little wonder that they were so fresh in her mind ; creating a very powerful effect on his mind and unconscious , musically and rhythmically , that would remain with him for life . |
| 23 | Behind the indecision lay a youth torn in one direction by the family business , not least perhaps his father 's shadow hanging over him ; and the preferences of his mind and ever prolific imagination in the other . |
| 24 | The results confirm that he could have done very much better , but his mind was partly elsewhere , ever active , ever engaged , ever busy . |
| 25 | The following is his acceptance speech as President and , while betraying a certain youthfulness , it demonstrates the cast — the humour and the audacity — of his mind at that time : |
| 26 | Even when in lectures , which was not often , his mind was elsewhere . |
| 27 | So these beginning years focused on reality — the underbelly of creation as well as its brightness — which was of immense importance to the making of the man and his mind . |
| 28 | Supplanted , perhaps ; cheated ( by fate ) probably ; but now self-absolved from its responsibility , though to bear for ever in his mind the trauma of a calling from which he had somehow been disinherited . |
| 29 | And so the months passed quickly , filled with the sights , sounds , smells and tastes — all of them clamorous and variegated and , not least , the girls with which he filled his mind and his hours . |
| 30 | Understood thus it avoids the questions ( and therefore the problems ) , which Leonard nowhere addresses : such as the historicity , canonicity and the like of the world-faiths — to his mind a species of academic involvement with which he was not interested and of which he was even disdainful . |