Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] mind 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , unfading in our mind 's eye , will this hanger-on and fantasist and self-dramatizer ever do anything , though it 's difficult to say so without a chilling , denaturing hint of analytics . |
| 2 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 3 | A quarter of a century later , it is a moment she can still picture in her mind 's eye and she can still summon up the painful feelings of rejection , breach of trust and isolation that the break-up of her parents ’ marriage signified to her . |
| 4 | In my case , and I am sure I am not alone in this , I can picture in my mind 's eye every summit I have reached in a long life without confusion of identity . |
| 5 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 6 | All Rachel could see in her mind 's eye was Irene Markham 's gaunt features on the day when she 'd gone to Brooklands to pick David up . |
| 7 | I can see in my mind 's eye how the avenue of chestnuts was alight with red and white candles . |
| 8 | This image stays in my mind 's eye as the unequivocal focus of attention . |
| 9 | ‘ Certainly , your Highness , ’ she bobbed in her mind 's eye . |
| 10 | After buying the house she had spent hours just walking through it , seeing in her mind 's eye just how it would all look eventually — but turning those dreams into reality was sheer hard graft , and she was n't halfway through yet . |
| 11 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , of course , and what he is seeing in his mind 's eye , after years of study into world-wide distribution of disease in relation to diet , is the stool of someone unlikely to die from cancer of the bowel . |
| 12 | I see him sluggish and stoned in my mind 's eye , his ginger hair and heavy lidded eyes , his clammy , groping hands and nothing to call his own . |
| 13 | Although I can see the whole thing unrolling in my mind 's eye like a silent film , I ca n't really be precise about where everyone was and that sort of thing . ’ |
| 14 | Squealing mice seemed bedded in my ears , and green hoppity things abounded , but right smack in my mind 's eye were two teams of digitised Ice Hockey players fighting it out in front of a packed stadium . |
| 15 | She saw in her mind 's eye rude naked women and flames as upright and stiff as those on the covers of boxes of fireworks . |
| 16 | It was of no help to her inner disquiet , as she left her room , that she saw in her mind 's eye a picture of the aristocratic-looking Ven Gajdusek . |
| 17 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 18 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 19 | Whenever Shiva considered the word he saw in his mind 's eye a grinning Mephistopheles with small , curly ram 's horns , capering in frock coat . |
| 20 | He was well on his way to the station when he paused and looked up towards a building , and he saw in his mind 's eye Carrie running up the steps , and he recalled her voice saying , ‘ Oh ! why must you keep on about that . ’ |
| 21 | It was this nightmare image of panic and despair that she kept in her mind 's eye as Simon talked his way confidently through his own philosophy of life . |
| 22 | The news caught Yanto unawares and caused a jolt in his stomach , but he showed no sign of concern as the dark skinned handsome spectre of Nigger Asnett his arch rival , appeared in his mind 's eye . |
| 23 | Probably we have in our mind 's eye something in the nature of a raffle as being a form of random sampling , and we are right in thinking of this as one method . |
| 24 | Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes , and stuffed omelettes , and steak pies with lovely gravy:I have in my mind 's eye a picture of her , sitting in a corner with some child on her lap , and the usual dreamy expression on her face . |
| 25 | It is the sounds you see/feel/hear in your mind 's ear . |