Example sentences of "to mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common characteristic is the happy acceptance of whatever comes to mind … paintings are a stimulus to pleasant experience . ’ |
| 2 | Another fallacious account comes to mind . |
| 3 | How many children will be I allowed to mind ? |
| 4 | His delicious Pas des Légumes performed at a special performance to mark the market 's passing brought to mind the long history not only of the ‘ fruit and veg ’ , but also of Harlequin , Columbine and their colleagues of the commedia dell'arte , inhabitants for many years of the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , and the King 's Theatre , Drury Lane , where the first ballets d'action were staged . |
| 5 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 6 | The closest comparison with another polymath in our time that , in spite of personal and other differences , comes to mind is with Arnold Toynbee . |
| 7 | Yet this piece has much that is freshly inventive and original , even if these were epithets that , alas , did not readily spring to mind with regard to the performance it received . |
| 8 | At the time I was writing for Bicycle Times and one day Dick 's Arctic footpath came to mind . |
| 9 | The chairman 's homily called to mind the short — but too long — talk he and Marilyn had suffered two days before in the vicar 's study . |
| 10 | One of the red knights on a panoplied charger had a contemporary Western face , a raw sharp face which called to mind absurdly that of Charlie Hatton . |
| 11 | Crocker 's cautious approach to the electricity showroom , his quick sidelong glances , called to mind days long gone by when Wexford , then a sixth-form boy , had witnessed this same man as a child of ten , scuttling up to front doors playing ‘ Knocking Down Ginger ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 13 | Two possibilities came to mind . |
| 14 | Nobody seemed to mind very much , all agreeing she works terrifically hard . |
| 15 | Sportily firm , is the phrase that comes to mind — though you can feel the bumps , they 're nicely cushioned . |
| 16 | Two flowers which do not readily spring to mind as candidates for cutting , but which make excellent displays , are Sisyrinchium striatum and paeonies . |
| 17 | Tammuz had enmired himself , no doubt , in a veritable maze of minor and major legal infringements : destruction of Tech-Green equipment and forging documents were the first that sprang to mind . |
| 18 | But the acceptance of responsibility is typical of these men : modesty is not the word which springs to mind . |
| 19 | The picture comes to mind of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations sitting in her wedding dress for many years waiting for the groom who will not come . |
| 20 | Visions of heavy counselling sessions come to mind and it is often felt that the grieving person must be helped to ‘ come to terms with it ’ , whatever ‘ it ’ might be . |
| 21 | We tiptoed inside , but no one seemed to mind . |
| 22 | ‘ One thing that comes to mind is at kindergarten , though . |
| 23 | One analogy which might spring to mind is of an archaeologist who reconstructs a fragmented mosaic . |
| 24 | A thousand reasons why Labour 's economic and social policies are all wrong — wo n't work , must never even be tried — suddenly spring to mind . |
| 25 | This brought to mind Mr Major 's curious pronunciation of such words as ‘ want ’ and the way in which the politicians around him have taken to saying wunt . |
| 26 | Ian Baker-Finch and Craig Parry are contenders for a first Australian victory , while Watson and Mark O'Meara and Raymond Floyd spring to mind of the other Americans . |
| 27 | Barry Lyndon comes to mind , and this is another . |
| 28 | There is a rival school , though , whose followers pursue successful careers by simply pretending to be themselves ( Roger Moore and Stephen Fry spring to mind ) . |
| 29 | Ask voters to say what comes to mind when they think of the Labour Party and a large proportion mention , ‘ the unions ’ , ‘ strikes ’ , ‘ the winter of discontent ’ , and ‘ the three-day week ’ , even though this last event occurred under Mr Heath . |
| 30 | His remarks brought to mind a particularly tough circuit-training class , Terry 's Power Hour , that used to be much in vogue at Battersea 's Metropolitan Club . |