Example sentences of "[noun] in [pos pn] mind 's eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he spoke , the teacher saw Prince Richard in his mind 's eye and recalled the authority in the imperious carriage of the boy 's small head on his narrow but habitually braced shoulders . |
| 2 | She paused , imagining the scene in her mind 's eye as she had done so many times before , trying to picture her mother as a young girl , still in the fresh-faced bloom of youth . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , how lovely , ’ she breathed , her imagination taking off as she pictured the scene in her mind 's eye . |
| 4 | And , in all probability , their imaginations will , as they say , boggle because , as you have never seen that scene in your mind 's eye , it may well be riddled with improbabilities if it is not a downright impossibility . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | and you , you just , you ca n't mentally cross them off , keep a picture in your mind 's eye of what you 've crossed off . |
| 9 | I 'm quite sure I saw it , I 've got a sort of picture in my mind 's eye . |
| 10 | I 'd like at least to have a picture in my mind 's eye of where everything is . ’ |
| 11 | My priorities in my mind 's eye is better . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress . |
| 14 | Thomas saw Sara in his mind 's eye . |
| 15 | He could see the big man in his mind 's eye even now , lifting Berdichev and breaking him . |
| 16 | The image in his mind 's eye was as sharp as ever . |
| 17 | Almost certainly , the image in your mind 's eye involves those billiard balls you learned about at school . |
| 18 | He let it come erect , then looked at it , with Hannele in his mind 's eye simultaneously . |
| 19 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 20 | You should be able to ‘ see ’ your audience in your mind 's eye . |
| 21 | I 've never had any difficulty sleeping and I try to stay awake long enough to see the cancer in my mind 's eye . |
| 22 | A true watchmaker has foresight : he designs his cogs and springs , and plans their interconnections , with a future purpose in his mind 's eye . |
| 23 | They were too small and sleek , compared to the ones in his mind 's eye . |
| 24 | She concentrated on the face in her mind 's eye , the single eye that saw in the dark and coloured things in . |
| 25 | 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 . |