Example sentences of "[prep] my mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You gave me that line about my mind ten years ago , ’ Emma said . |
| 2 | Be an awful lot off my mind . |
| 3 | And Clarke admitted : ‘ It 's a weight off my mind . |
| 4 | He said drily , ‘ That 's a weight off my mind . |
| 5 | Her new diet , The Bank Balance Diet , introduced in her biography , A Weight Off My Mind ( Macdonald , £14.95 ) , asks you to treat your body as a bank , ‘ earning credit ’ through exercise and ‘ writing cheques ’ with the food you eat . |
| 6 | And that 'll be a weight off my mind . ’ |
| 7 | That 's a load off my mind , believe me . ’ |
| 8 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 9 | ‘ Infested with tourists and mosquitoes ’ — the verdict of some friends who had spent a weekend in ‘ the Venice of the North ’ earlier in the summer flashed through my mind . |
| 10 | All kinds of thoughts raced through my mind as I waited for the explosion in our midst . |
| 11 | The thought passed through my mind , ‘ Do they intend to rush me and escape ? ’ |
| 12 | So many questions flashed through my mind . |
| 13 | THIRTY-FIVE years later , as these thoughts of my encounters with men in uniform flashed through my mind , the colonel , who by this time I had succeeded in recognising as another former classmate , said to me : ‘ Come and have a coffee ! ’ |
| 14 | As I approached the college the phrase from this passage : ‘ in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving ’ flashed through my mind . |
| 15 | The thought ran through my mind that the old man probably had a pocket full of money he had begged and stolen . |
| 16 | What ran through my mind was : ‘ What was going on inside his ? ’ |
| 17 | I must say it was the worst experience of my life , each time I looked over the stable door the most terrible thoughts went through my mind : what if he was lying down ? |
| 18 | It flashed through my mind that I was close . |
| 19 | ‘ Ay , I 'm black ! ’ flashed through my mind . |
| 20 | ‘ It never went through my mind that we had left Becky and Emma behind , ’ he said . |
| 21 | There were all sorts of things going through my mind . |
| 22 | An image flashed through my mind of thousands of angry , shouting blacks carrying torches through Beverly Hills . |
| 23 | I have never been one for spending a fortune on equipment , so a dream tank was not something that had ever really passed through my mind . |
| 24 | Georgie , Marion , Paul , Linda — the children 's faces floated through my mind . |
| 25 | It did go through my mind a few times , but at the time it does n't seem that important . |
| 26 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 27 | I looked at Lily She seemed to me to be perceptibly hurt ; and just as another wild idea was beginning to run through my mind , that she really was an amnesiac , some beautiful amnesiac he had , somehow , literally and metaphorically laid his hands on , she gave me what was beyond any doubt a contemporary look , a look out of role — a quick , questioning glance that flicked from me to Conchis 's averted head and back again . |
| 28 | Del Boy 's words of wisdom went through my mind ‘ There are none so blind as those who wo n't listen ’ . |
| 29 | Wild thoughts danced through my mind . |
| 30 | ‘ I must admit that it went through my mind , though I could scarcely credit it . ’ |