Example sentences of "[pos pn] mind 's eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see her in my mind 's eye always in a Fair Isle jersey . |
| 2 | It was her face chiefly that I saw brightening and fading away in my mind 's eye . |
| 3 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |
| 4 | Now my mind 's eye saw Aunt Louise 's little resting place : but the inscription ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Merely by shutting his door if it was open , North would add to the intrigue of meetings : ‘ and when the meeting was over , I still could n't understand why the door was shut and what the intrigue was ’ said a visiting official , puzzled ; ‘ it was in my mind 's eye a social call . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In my mind 's eye , your body is liberally smeared with a mixture of walnut oil and Nutella spread . |
| 10 | In my mind 's eye I see him as he was , complete with bowler-hat and aquiline nose . |
| 11 | I can see them in my mind 's eye even now . |
| 12 | In my mind 's eye , I see grey-faced men and women going to work on Friday morning . |
| 13 | I 've never had any difficulty sleeping and I try to stay awake long enough to see the cancer in my mind 's eye . |
| 14 | ‘ If I close my eyes , I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and that bright red tip-tank carves its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's eye ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I looked at it with my mind 's eye and I thought , ‘ ’ What can this be ? ’ |
| 17 | I can see them in my mind 's eye rising and dancing slowly around the room , their bodies undulating in a controlled exuberance as if lifted out of the world of motor cars , rockets and computerised mentalities into some universal heartbeat , some rhythm of the day , of the night , of the sea , of life . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |
| 20 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 21 | This image stays in my mind 's eye as the unequivocal focus of attention . |
| 22 | My priorities in my mind 's eye is better . |
| 23 | I 'm quite sure I saw it , I 've got a sort of picture in my mind 's eye . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I can see in my mind 's eye how the avenue of chestnuts was alight with red and white candles . |
| 26 | In my mind 's eye , I imagined her nestling warm and soft in the palms of my hands , trustingly accepting morsels of moistened wafer from between my lips , maybe cooing a little — not to say thank you , I 'm not daft enough to think that — because she would be so happy . |
| 27 | You did n't have to have the soul of a poet to conjure up what could have been ; in my mind 's eye I had a vision of Templars in their faceless conical helmets , red and white crosses on their black cloaks , moving across the island at the dead of night , the barges being soundlessly poled whilst , at prow and stern , huge cresset torches spluttered and flared in the darkness . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |
| 30 | How I love to recall their looks to my mind 's eye … |