Example sentences of "her mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may , however , be questions in her mind about the choices open to her : how will the information in a catalogue differ from what is to be found in a monograph ? |
| 2 | In her mind there was a set of events which includes reading about a work of art and looking at it . |
| 3 | She , her body prompting her still , with no finality in her , turned her world over and over again in her mind 's restless fingers . |
| 4 | The lady had always been a bit flighty in her mind — nervous , delicate , taking odd fancies . |
| 5 | With her mind wide open to this new enticing prospect , a desire so unexpected and untested , she wanted no audience . |
| 6 | Jay sipped and etched Lucy 's face and gestures on her mind , in the rose-pink glow of having seen her weeping and helpless , thinking she was alone . |
| 7 | ‘ I reckon the way to this woman 's heart is through her mind . ’ |
| 8 | To her mind , Lucy looked like she could do with a huge warm hug . |
| 9 | Let Lucy say for herself what was on her mind . |
| 10 | And her mind tried to blank out the rest of it . |
| 11 | Jay hated the way he came out with things she whisked to the edges of her mind . |
| 12 | ‘ If the silly bitch says no and you get her to say maybe , whatever inimitable persuasion you used , she changed her mind . |
| 13 | Lucy who possibly had n't given Jay a thought in four weeks ; she certainly had n't woken with Jay 's face in her mind , slept with a dream of Jay in her arms . |
| 14 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She went over the sequence of events in her mind . |
| 17 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |
| 18 | Names like Danny Blanchflower and Christy Ring , shouts of ‘ Up Down ’ and ‘ C'm on the Dube ’ crowded into her mind from the dinner tables of her childhood . |
| 19 | The conversation is ended or the speaker has changed his or her mind . |
| 20 | Belsey attempts to unite the poststructuralist and the Marxist parts of her mind by invoking Lacan , Althusser , and Macherey , but signs of strain or outright contradiction are not hard to find . |
| 21 | I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind . |
| 22 | It had been , however briefly , a time when her body and her mind had fitted together so tidily and wholely that , waking up one morning and deciding that it was time to go back to Oxford and visit her mother , was neither traumatic nor casual , but straightforward . |
| 23 | Phoebe , her body content and her mind rested , had heard her daughter without a flicker of guilt , or envy , simply with affection . |
| 24 | But at the same time Maggie was still young enough to hold two or more things in her mind , clear and contradictory . |
| 25 | Her mind , like the women in her house , was still laid down in strata , each virtually impermeable to the others . |
| 26 | Freed , thus , from the weight of the dragon 's will , and safely assured of being able to get home again Maggie turned her mind to her own task and went travelling down into the labyrinth of memory and desire . |
| 27 | Then suddenly she changed her mind and reached into her wardrobe for a new pair of tight stretchy ski trousers that she had hardly worn . |
| 28 | She tried to tell herself that she had come here today to be cured , to return to the cold world of normality ; but in another part of her mind she had dreamed of this meeting , the apotheosis of the love affair . |
| 29 | She held the idea of death briefly between her hands ; but noticed how fast her mind darted away and took up sentimental pictures of her funeral , of her mother 's and grandmother 's distress , of her friends . |
| 30 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |