Example sentences of "mind 's eye [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 2 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 3 | In his mind 's eye he saw it boring its way into the earth , down , down , until it reached his brother 's face . |
| 4 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 5 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |
| 6 | In her mind 's eye she saw the assassin 's mouth open and close , and on them read the syllables of her name . |
| 7 | ’ In her mind 's eye she saw the face of her father , and her heart was heavy . |
| 8 | Helen thought of the dark woman ; in the mind 's eye she saw her — laughing and talking with Giles . |
| 9 | Only in her mind 's eye she saw the image of her father , rather big , fleshy , with bulging expressionless eyes . |
| 10 | In my mind 's eye I see him as he was , complete with bowler-hat and aquiline nose . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |