Example sentences of "in his mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unity in his mind of architecture , music , astronomy , geology . |
| 2 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ said Henry , a thought beginning to burgeon in his mind . |
| 3 | This is because he has recently practised safety procedures for almost every conceivable emergency , and they are therefore fresh in his mind . |
| 4 | All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible . |
| 5 | In his mind Cameron continued the argument throughout the meal . |
| 6 | Supplanted , perhaps ; cheated ( by fate ) probably ; but now self-absolved from its responsibility , though to bear for ever in his mind the trauma of a calling from which he had somehow been disinherited . |
| 7 | Dr Varmus said winning the Nobel Prize was not in his mind when he and Dr Bishop published their research . |
| 8 | All these constituents needed fusing and moulding into a unity in his mind . |
| 9 | But he had a fixed idea in his mind that to be a bishop was not his work . |
| 10 | Some phrases lay in his mind for years . |
| 11 | A year later , they were still in his mind when thinking simply of western civilization ; the Papuans came into his memory only to be cursorily dismissed as ‘ weak inaudible voices ’ . |
| 12 | Conran has never allowed his job to become mere routine and there is no doubt in his mind about the satisfaction he has derived from building up a business empire . |
| 13 | He was very clear in his mind , however , about what steps needed to be taken to make the company fit for the private sector . |
| 14 | Throughout his work Marx stresses how different man is from animals , because he acts in terms of ideas and concepts which are formed in his mind , and therefore human history is of a different kind to natural history . |
| 15 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 16 | Professor Sir David Cox of Nuffield College , Oxford , an expert on — among other things — Aids statistics , no doubt had uppermost in his mind the Prime Ministerial axing of the Lifestyle Aids survey when he referred to increasing political pressure and lamented the sinking reputation of official statistics . |
| 17 | Perhaps the disaster had reinforced the belief already taking shape in his mind , that something was deeply wrong with the Soviet system . |
| 18 | He did no wilful damage but regarded himself as entitled to go where he wished for the purpose in his mind without regard to the rights of ownership and the alleged presence of man traps and spring guns . |
| 19 | Berkeley infers from this that , lacking experience of such eye-movements , a blind man who gained sight ‘ would , at first , have no idea of distance by sight ; the sun and stars … would all seem to be in his eyes , or rather in his mind ’ . |
| 20 | He saw him in his mind 's eye , running through the wood wearing Uncle Walter 's helmet and firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes . |
| 21 | But a tiny , treacherous crack of doubt had opened in his mind . |
| 22 | As though , ridiculously , he could blot out the misery in his mind by destroying a picture . |
| 23 | The voice in his mind was small and cool , above the struggle . |
| 24 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 25 | In 1899 he lost his much-loved daughter , Josephine , and this sad event may have been in his mind when he wrote the emotive story , They . |
| 26 | In his mind , he ran through his routines and selected one : the comic monologue . |
| 27 | The idea of controlling Gazzer , of making Gazzer afraid of him , excited him : it had been evolving in his mind ever since that afternoon 's walk with Marie down to the arcades . |
| 28 | Yet it was still so vivid in his mind . |
| 29 | He turned over in his mind what to say next . |
| 30 | Before leaving the chamber , Mungo turned back to take in the scene ; to fix it in his mind . |