Example sentences of "[noun sg] in his mind [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 2 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 3 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
| 4 | The ‘ photograph ’ of the burial mound in his mind 's eye , still so sharp and detailed , had convinced him that therein lay something of importance . |
| 5 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 6 | He could see the big man in his mind 's eye even now , lifting Berdichev and breaking him . |
| 7 | The image in his mind 's eye was as sharp as ever . |
| 8 | A true watchmaker has foresight : he designs his cogs and springs , and plans their interconnections , with a future purpose in his mind 's eye . |
| 9 | He saw his mother in his mind 's eye , her arms red to the elbows from doing other people 's washing and ironing , her knees permanently swollen from scrubbing floors . |