Example sentences of "[prep] his mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | has brought together , accumulated and assimilated by means of the physical materials of his art a host of desires , intentions , and conditions coming from all regions of his mind and being . |
| 2 | Menzies struggled to stop the racing of his mind and sort out the options coolly . |
| 3 | Behind the indecision lay a youth torn in one direction by the family business , not least perhaps his father 's shadow hanging over him ; and the preferences of his mind and ever prolific imagination in the other . |
| 4 | The following is his acceptance speech as President and , while betraying a certain youthfulness , it demonstrates the cast — the humour and the audacity — of his mind at that time : |
| 5 | On the surface of his mind lies the contrast between a trivial though tormenting fear and a monstrous scheme ; and beneath that contrast appears a positive contradiction : for a few sentences earlier we have been told ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps he did n't go out of his mind at all . ’ |
| 7 | A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark . |
| 8 | Lendl , still trying to push the disappointment of his United States Open defeat by Boris Becker to the back of his mind and impatient for another crack at the elusive Wimbledon title , appeared to be going through the motions during his round-robin match at the Stuttgart Classic . |
| 9 | Ramsey never doubted that in the formation of his mind Hoskyns was influential , and ever afterwards he was grateful . |
| 10 | First , there was no question of the power of his mind , even if that mind moved eccentrically . |
| 11 | At the centre of his mind was a fusion between the evangelical Christian and the churchman ; the first , biblical , a man of gospel and of conversion , of faith and the Word of God ; the second , a man with a reverence for the Christian society through the centuries , its sacramental inheritance , its order , and ministry , and continuity . |
| 12 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 13 | And always , at the back of his mind , there was the business with the Police ; a mere shadow , as he repeatedly reminded himself , without substance , but there just the same and often , as he went through Ostkreuz on the S-Bahn , he was tempted to get off and see Lieutenant Werner , merely to get the matter sorted out once and for all but , mindful of Bodo 's advice , he never did . |
| 14 | For Lewis , this was ‘ the personal heresy ’ , a vivid example of which would be the present biography , which seeks to shed light on a man 's work by researching into the recesses of his mind and the outward events of his life . |
| 15 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 16 | He wondered if the effects of ‘ the electric ’ were wearing off and Byrne was going out of his mind again . |
| 17 | From the fetid depths of his mind , Bataille dredged up a fantasy of human evolution one part pseudo-science , one part myth ; as the apeman became homo erectus , all the erotic energy vested and mind . |
| 18 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 19 | With one part of his mind he knew he was getting the benefit of the backlash from an experience in Catherine 's past , but with another part he did n't care about any of that , there was no reality beyond her . |
| 20 | He says he has never been able to get the image out of his mind . |
| 21 | From then on , the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy . |
| 22 | In common with Bacon , Gassendi does not say that Aristotle is completely valueless : he acknowledges the greatness of his mind . |
| 23 | After his Mum had been up to say goodnight to him , Philip lay a long time thinking and he could n't keep out of his mind the thin chalk letters on the pavement in Hill View . |
| 24 | Then he put Hill View Close out of his mind . |
| 25 | The cautious part of his mind froze . |
| 26 | Gradually everything else faded out of his mind . |
| 27 | — and he knew , this time , that he was appealing to a part of his mind and not to another person at all — What would you choose ? |
| 28 | Somewhere in the back of his mind he registered that they were both calling to him , Hank and Ma together . |
| 29 | Richard Cecil had this thought in the forefront of his mind , writing in his journal about his early life before his conversion to ‘ vital religion ’ : |
| 30 | It was only then that Gazzer remembered what Simon had done : the intense activity of the last half hour had driven it out of his mind . |