Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just felt my mind rebelling against it all the time . |
| 2 | Can I can I just focus your mind on two things gents ? |
| 3 | Could someone please put my mind at rest and tell me whatever happened to it ? |
| 4 | Memories of the past , which now filled her mind to the exclusion of all else . |
| 5 | And anyway , what about all the other equally correct continuations which never crossed our mind until we came to them ? |
| 6 | ‘ I never took you for a person who constantly changes her mind , Fran . ’ |
| 7 | You just made your mind very cold and distant . |
| 8 | So you just changed your mind and put it in |
| 9 | So you just changed your mind and put it in . |
| 10 | She just changed her mind . ’ |
| 11 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |
| 12 | I give way to the hon. Gentleman , who is an endangered species on the Opposition Benches as he is one of the few who still speak their mind . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you always speak your mind , signorina ? ’ |
| 14 | I return again to the point that I made originally — why is it that this vulnerable , waif-like , often frighteningly naive girl who always speaks her mind — but is after all only a pop singer — is taken seriously at all ? |
| 15 | The one person who always jogs my mind when reading MKM is Joan Lafferty . |
| 16 | ‘ If you ever change your mind , you know where to find me — huh ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It could be very useful to be able to negotiate a discount for cash if you are buying luxury items like a fur coat or an expensive piece of jewellery , ’ was the reaction from Patrick Hastings , a City employee who clearly has his mind on women . |
| 18 | Had she really changed her mind in the midst of having sex ? |
| 19 | If you now set your mind to do so , it will tell you all the components , reasonable and unreasonable , of your fury . |
| 20 | I know what kind of an ordeal you 've had tonight , and , although I might have been willing to tease you before to take your mind off it and give you something else to think about , I do n't intend to ravish you to complete the treatment ! ’ |
| 21 | It is no secret that Keynes was a highly intuitive thinker who often changed his mind : in 1930 he defended the gold standard , which he had previously attacked , and in 1931 he abandoned the principle of free trade , which he had previously upheld . |
| 22 | On days like this she resolutely closed her mind to worries about Weenie and Co. , put thoughts about Peter aside , and concentrated on herself . |
| 23 | She heard the sound of his footsteps upstairs , and then the more distant noise of the shower being turned on , and she resolutely shut her mind to any wayward thoughts that might arise from there . |
| 24 | He 'd looked as though he was really pleased to see her , not awkward or evasive , and as he continued to watch her she hastily dragged her mind back to the matter in hand . |
| 25 | You never let your mind wander in your life . |
| 26 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 27 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 28 | They get nowhere , if something else takes their mind , and |
| 29 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 30 | So if y if you 're manoeuvring round him and he suddenly changes his mind we 're compounding what he is actually doing , by getting assuming that he 's gon na do the right thing . |