Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] mind ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sublime memory of that first descent into the moist , mossy darkness of the jungle earlier in the day blazed again suddenly in his mind 's eye for a moment , but then his numbness left him in a furious rush and a piercing surge of purity and sweetness flashed through the rank darkness of the hut . |
| 2 | He could see the image clearly enough in his mind 's eye ( since that night no two rememberings had been more than a minute apart ) but even the most basic sketch eluded his hand . |
| 3 | Only in her mind 's eye she saw the image of her father , rather big , fleshy , with bulging expressionless eyes . |
| 4 | When we are writing we must unlearn this disembodiedness if our work is to achieve the depth and richness we desire : we must learn to speak with our whole body and not just through our mind 's eye . |
| 5 | It was her face chiefly that I saw brightening and fading away in my mind 's eye . |
| 6 | Ruth looked doubtfully out to sea , wondering what he meant ; but then she began to see something , more with her mind 's eye than in reality , though she knew at once it was very real . |
| 7 | Even less had they diminished the image of Topaz which was always in his mind 's eye . |
| 8 | Always in your mind 's eye see yourself as you stretch either upwards or towards your sides , ‘ growing ’ at least two inches out of the hip . |
| 9 | Try as she might , Rory could n't help but giggle at the ridiculous picture that conjured up in her mind 's eye . |
| 10 | Even as he spoke , this avenue closed up in his mind 's eye like a pupil contracting to a black point . |
| 11 | She is blind , so each contestant must tell her their adventures in great detail , so that she can see everything clearly in her mind 's eye . |
| 12 | I remember nothing there except a girl in the top class , who was fair-haired and had a bright complexion , and I see her now in my mind 's eye outstretched , lying upon her back on the floor . |
| 13 | He walks beyond fatigue , beyond the limits of endurance and the frontiers of self , and somewhere along this path he loses his balance , falls off the edge of his sanity , and out here beyond his mind 's rim he sees , for the first and only time in his life , a vision . |
| 14 | She could see Miss Henrietta yet in her mind 's eye , so young and lovely , laughing up into the face of her adoring Captain Cook . |
| 15 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 16 | She , her body prompting her still , with no finality in her , turned her world over and over again in her mind 's restless fingers . |