I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a load off...mind (= I felt less worried )
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Knowing he was safe was a load off my mind .
a thought crosses sb’s mind (= someone has a thought )
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The thought never crossed my mind that I could be wrong.
an academic/practical etc turn of mind
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youngsters with an independent turn of mind
an active mind (= when someone is able to think quickly and clearly )
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A fit body is crucial if you want an active mind.
an attitude of mind British English (= a way of thinking )
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Being young is simply an attitude of mind.
be bored out of your mind (= extremely bored )
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In some of the lessons, I was bored out of my mind.
broadens...mind (= helps you to understand and accept other people’s beliefs, customs etc )
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Travel broadens the mind .
closed mind
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You’re facing this situation with a closed mind .
cloud sb’s judgement/mind/vision etc
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Don’t let your personal feelings cloud your judgement.
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Fear had clouded his vision.
concentrate your efforts/attention/energy/mind etc on sth
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I’m concentrating my efforts on writing my autobiography.
drive sb up the wall/round the bend/out of their mind spoken informal (= make someone feel very annoyed )
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That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
erase sth from your mind/memory
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He couldn’t erase the image from his mind.
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She had tried to erase the memory of that day.
exercised...minds
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It’s an issue that’s exercised the minds of scientists for a long time.
filthy mind (= you are always thinking about sex )
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Your problem is you’ve got a filthy mind .
find yourself/your mind etc doing sth
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When he left, Karen found herself heaving a huge sigh of relief.
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She tried to concentrate, but found her mind drifting back to Alex.
focus (sb’s) mind/attention (on sth) (= make people give their attention to something )
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We need to focus public attention on this issue.
focus your attention/mind/efforts on sth
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She tried to focus her mind on her work.
fresh in her mind
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The accident was still fresh in her mind.
have a dirty mind British English (= think about sex a lot )
I don’t mind admitting sth
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I’m scared and I don’t mind admitting it.
I hope you don’t mind
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I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why are you moving?
imprint sth on your mind/memory/brain etc
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The sight of Joe’s dead body was imprinted on his mind forever.
It didn’t cross...mind that
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It didn’t cross her mind that she might be doing something illegal.
it never entered sb’s head/mind (= used to say that someone never considered a particular idea, especially when this is surprising )
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It never entered his head that she might be seeing someone else.
keep an open mind
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It’s important to keep an open mind as you study the topic.
let your gaze/eyes/thoughts/mind etc drift
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Idly she let her eyes drift over his desk.
mind reader
mind your manners ( also remember your manners British English ) (= used for telling a child to behave politely )
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I frowned at him and told him to mind his manners.
of like mind
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They get on well together because they are of like mind .
of unsound mind (= people who are mentally ill )
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people of unsound mind
one-track mind
poisoning...minds
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Television violence is poisoning the minds of young people.
presence of mind
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I’m glad she had the presence of mind to take down the car’s registration number.
put/push sth to the back of your mind
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He tried to push these uncomfortable thoughts to the back of his mind.
sb’s state of mind
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What was his state of mind at the time of the attack?
strength of purpose/mind (= determination to do something )
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In pursuing this ambition, William showed remarkable strength of purpose.
the human mind/brain
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Distances in space are too great for the human mind to comprehend.
the thought has (never) crossed my mind (= used to tell someone you have thought of the thing they are suggesting, or have never thought of it )
the workings of...mind (= how he thinks )
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I shall never understand the workings of his mind .
to the untutored eye/ear/mind
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To the untutored ear, this music sounds as if it might have been written by Beethoven.
weighing on...mind
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I’m sure there’s something weighing on his mind .
with an easy mind
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I can leave the children with my mother with an easy mind .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
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This statement should be absolutely clear in the minds of everyone concerned.
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Fenella turned back to the treadmills and half closed her eyes, the words of the Robemaker still clear in her mind .
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Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind , she again stopped taking her medicine.
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Step 9 Be quite clear in your mind how your child must change in order for the situation to improve.
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The layout of the house was still clear in his mind .
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He would get to the bottom of all this, just as soon as he could get it all clear in his mind .
fresh
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She seemed calm enough but the fit she had thrown on first wakening was fresh in his mind .
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I did my shopping Sunday afternoon while it was fresh on my mind .
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With Amantani fresh in my mind it seemed to me that more than the cattle were tethered here.
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There was no doubt that the tragedy was as fresh in his mind as the day it had happened.
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I wrote it while the text was still fresh in my mind .
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He thinks this is more important than a high turnover of staff, despite the fresh minds and attitudes this may encourage.
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The memory of empty bellies because their father had gambled away all the National Assistance was still fresh in their minds .
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With this unhappy enterprise fresh in their minds , Kennedy and Khrushchev met in Vienna in June 1961.
human
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But the human mind selects as well as stores.
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Can they be other than mere arbitrary constructions of the human mind ?
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His response is to abandon the troubled human mind , and delve into the animal world instead.
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But maybe total understanding of everything is a bit much to ask of a tiny human mind .
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I deny such an idea; the human mind if it desires something strongly enough will achieve anything.
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At present, computers are a useful aid in research, but they have to be directed by human minds .
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Or was the human mind ready for being stretched, and perhaps into the next stage of development?
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Modern developments in artificial intelligence are bringing a new light to past perceptions of how the human mind interacts with nature.
open
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He insists he has an open mind on the players he wants to keep.
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In interviews after their inaugural meeting last Thursday, all vowed to keep an open mind on whoever comes before the panel.
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Still, it was as well to keep an open mind .
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And later she was going to try to get herself to that meeting with an open mind .
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An open school is characterised by open minds as well as open doors.
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We must keep an open mind about the possible presence of ores.
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In this situation it is vital to keep an open mind and consider any possibilities and evaluate them carefully.
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Police Commission members have vowed to keep an open mind on the finalists.
right
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This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all.
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Who in their right mind would save any money, under these circumstances?
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No one in his right mind would want to start a fight in such a place as this.
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Eurydice Druitt Saltonstall was in her right mind when she wrote this will.
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The ease with which they fell from her tongue would have horrified her, had she been in her right mind .
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He might be more in his right mind than you are.
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No one in his right mind would call the Delinquents a memorable piece of work.
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No one in their right mind should believe such a terrifying thought.
■ VERB
bear
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You should also bear in mind that social security payments might be higher abroad.
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And while that would seem to leave Jen open to offers, bear in mind that she can be a difficult customer.
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This is to be expected, bearing in mind the way in which insertion is handled.
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That is also an outcome to bear in mind .
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There are some very basic psychological principles for you to bear in mind .
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You must bear in mind the need to safeguard public funds and observe security requirements.
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There are a number of points to bear in mind .
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Finally governments have also to bear in mind taxation rates in other countries when framing their own policies.
borne
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Film is something that has been edited and this should always be borne in mind when using it.
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The tactic is mined with dangers and difficulties and can not be successfully carried out unless these are constantly borne in mind .
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Distributional factors should always be borne in mind when considering the effects of changes in aggregate variables.
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This relationship should be borne in mind when we examine monetary policy in the next two chapters.
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But as was stated above, it must always be borne in mind that these models are ideal types.
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Given the quality of much tap water in recent years this point should be borne in mind when considering keeping this fish.
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The possibility of progression to modules requiring higher levels of competence should also be borne in mind when designing programmes.
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This dulled incentive to enhance productivity is a cost of integration that must be borne in mind when amalgamation is contemplated.
change
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Two days before the lunch John Lawrence rang to say he had changed his mind and would after all be present.
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The couple had considered buying the house, where they had lived for several years, but they changed their minds .
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He was convinced Jeopardy would hate him for ever, change his mind about the performance, change his mind about his prowess.
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Time to recall the smallest moment, time to revise your story, time to change your mind .
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But when she accompanies Diana to the ancient Tower Abbey, she begins to change her mind .
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But no one directly changes a mind .
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The attempt to change his mind proved futile.
concentrate
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The cash crisis in the Third World will help concentrate the minds of lenders.
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Robyn lay, eyes closed, and concentrated on keeping her mind blank and her body relaxed.
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I think that might concentrate his mind wonderfully as to the validity of different world views!
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But the prospect of an early general election has concentrated minds .
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It concentrated my mind at our interviews again.
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A hefty fine would help concentrate the mind and could save the lives of commuters.
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It concentrates the mind better than anything I know.
cross
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And anyway, what about all the other equally correct continuations which never crossed our mind until we came to them?
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In fact, it had hardly crossed her mind at all for days now.
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It crosses my mind , briefly, that a new bottle would be a welcome gift.
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For some idiotic reason it had never crossed her mind that she might be doing something illegal.
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When museum planning began in 1991, officials were so focused on exhibits that souvenirs never crossed their minds .
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I think of so many things, so many sad and bitter thoughts cross my mind .
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Retirement has crossed his mind , Aikman said.
enter
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And it entered his mind uninvited to wonder about the strangeness of human relationships.
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It began entering my mind when I was putting.
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They have entered your mind and there they add to the charge with which you are writing your book.
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Going to college, by the way, just never entered my mind .
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Every thought and feeling that had entered Ace's mind had appeared simultaneously on her face.
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And here a niggling doubt enters the mind .
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And then the word Agnes entered my mind .
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Absolut Vodka has used its bottle shape to enter the minds of millions.
flash
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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Probably nothing will flash into your mind , I said.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds .
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At that moment a plan flashed into her mind , perfect, down to the last detail.
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The picture of Christopher Court driving away from Church Row flashed into his mind .
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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It flashed through my mind that I was close.
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Each time I see one of these cocoons hanging from a tree, all of these marvels flash through my mind .
keep
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To pull this off, the government should keep in mind some first principles.
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There are other factors that companies need to keep in mind .
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However, although we can keep this association in mind , it does not give us the whole picture.
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If the limitations of the 24-hour recall are kept in mind , gross calculations of nutrient intake are valid.
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Whilst the latter is not always possible it should be kept in mind .
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I think you should keep an open mind and enjoy being with people.
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That'd keep her mind off herself quick enough.
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And I always keep in mind the global nature of the organization.
make
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Mr le Carr can't seem to make up his mind whether he's writing a thriller or an expos.
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A man is what he makes up his mind to be.
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George was a superb dean, not least because of his capacity to listen to colleagues and then make up his mind decisively.
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He had made up his mind to be offended.
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Before she had made up her mind she heard the roar of the jets.
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Gore reportedly has a knack of forcing the president to make up his mind and move on.
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Be grown up and make up your own mind .
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Her parents felt they were too young, but that ultimately the two young people had to make up their own minds .
occupy
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They had other problems now to occupy their minds , as well as Balliol's whereabouts.
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But ah, how I need some more engaging puzzle to occupy my mind today.
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There are very many ways of course to occupy the mind and the techniques we describe are only a few suggestions for practice.
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K... Occupy you minds with good thoughts, or the enemy will find the bad ones.
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So the season continued and the World Championships in Rome began more and more to occupy my mind .
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It occupied his mind , too, shrinking his vision of the sea clock.
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She also had enough at Usher to occupy her mind without fretting about future possibilities.
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I feel it was important that the men had work to do that occupied their minds and bodies.
put
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He put Jane out of his mind and concentrated on the task ahead of him.
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I think this group can do anything it wants to if it puts its mind to it.
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Despite speculation that the campaign, produced by Hoare Wilkins, was put together with privatisation in mind .
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Nick spotted it by the sudden flash of light on its chassis, then put it from his mind .
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Brian, although fascinated by psychology, always wanted to sort himself out, not put his mind into another's hands.
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The Professor couldn't help thinking that he put him in mind of a young Jack Palance.
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He's unlikely to know how you feel, and until he does, he can't put your mind at rest.
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She put it out of her mind .
read
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Surely he hadn't somehow read her mind and shared that foolish thought that stress and tiredness had put into her head?
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You must have read my mind .
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She knows he can read her mind , she knows her thoughts are open to him.
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He might have been rather less relieved if he could have read her mind .
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It may respond to voice commands or it may read minds .
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As if she reads his mind , she moans encouragingly.
speak
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He spoke his mind and he rarely smiled, and he was getting, at best, a C from me.
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He dawdled, afraid to say no or resist her or speak his mind .
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They reflect a tough tradition among rural women of shouldering a heavy economic burden and speaking their mind .
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What does one say in a culture that hesitates to speak its mind ?
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Lucy Lane, on the point of speaking , changed her mind .
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Even if they disagree sometimes with what he says, they like a candidate who speaks his mind .
stick
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I think those types of things stick in children's minds , so I didn't want her there.
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Yet the one small doubt stuck in her mind like a burr in tweed.
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But it stuck in my mind .
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It must have stuck in her mind , that an honest person might act out of character when severely threatened.
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It is not surprising that phrases do not stick in the mind .
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One incident that has always stuck in my mind was when I dove for my foxhole at the opening mortar round.
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One boy,, really sticks out in my mind .
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Perhaps the image is just so startling that it sticks in our minds .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fertile imagination/mind/brain
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Even now no-one seems quite certain whether this was a fact, a half-fact or the product of a fertile imagination.
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He is said to have been convivial, widely knowledgeable, with a fertile imagination and a whimsical sense of humour.
a fevered imagination/mind/brain
a nimble mind/brain/wit
a tidy mind
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Henry had a tidy mind, and he was practical.
an inquiring mind
an open mind
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And later she was going to try to get herself to that meeting with an open mind.
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Before he resolves a problem, he keeps an open mind on how that problem might be resolved.
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But officially as least the police are still keeping an open mind.
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He insists he has an open mind on the players he wants to keep.
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In interviews after their inaugural meeting last Thursday, all vowed to keep an open mind on whoever comes before the panel.
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Police say they're keeping an open mind.
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Until the Profitboss makes a decision, he keeps an open mind as to what that decision might be.
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While keeping an open mind, most archaeologists remain extremely doubtful.
at/in the back of your mind
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I was hurt that she'd left, but I guess at the back of my mind I always knew she would.
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There was always a slight feeling of fear at the back of his mind.
be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart
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The date was engraved on his heart.
be etched on/in your memory/mind
be in two minds (about sth)
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As ever, he was in two minds about Clarac's value to the project.
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Do you know, he was in two minds about accepting?
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For a second he was in two minds about it.
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I am in two minds whether to change the engine or repair it.
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In her own cottage a few miles away the witch Agnes Nitt was in two minds about her new pointy hat.
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Please be warned: they are capable of getting through that gap which you are in two minds about bothering to block.
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They were not to be in two minds.
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This time she seemed to be in two minds about what to do.
be in/at/to the forefront of sb's mind/attention etc
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The risks of a court case also have to be in the forefront of your mind.
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This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone's attention.
be minded to do sth
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At about this time the plaintiff became suspicious that the appellants were minded to sell the property at Westbourne Grove.
be uppermost in your mind
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Succeeding in her career was uppermost in her mind.
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In fact, financial problems may not be uppermost in her mind.
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In fact, they brought up the question before I could do so because it was uppermost in their minds.
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It was only natural that that thought should be uppermost in her mind.
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Nor was there the slightest need to tell her of the thoughts that were uppermost in his mind.
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She was certain, however, that it was not the weather that was uppermost in his mind.
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Still, the aspect of that news which affected himself was uppermost in his mind, threatening to swamp such minor worries.
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The one which was uppermost in her mind was Maurin.
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Two thoughts were uppermost in my mind.
bear (sth) in mind
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Thanks, I'll bear that in mind.
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Tourists must bear in mind that they are visitors in another country.
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I said I would bear his suggestion in mind.
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If he had ... no conclusions yet, just bear it in mind.
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It is important that we bear these differences in mind when we attempt to analyse the formal nature of public sector organisations.
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Mr. Clarke Any intelligent parent, intelligent governor or intelligent newspaper person will bear it in mind that various factors influence results.
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My right hon. Friend should bear that in mind.
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The Prime Minister I will certainly bear that in mind.
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The problem is largely an insuperable one, and all we can do at this stage is to bear it in mind.
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Thus, firms entering overseas markets must bear this in mind when introducing new products or services.
bend your mind/efforts to sth
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But Mrs Totteridge was clearly bending her mind to other things.
blow sb's mind
call sth to mind
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Can you call to mind when you last saw her?
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Fresno and Modesto are cities that call to mind the words "hot" and "dry."
carry sth in your head/mind
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The amount of knowledge Lee carries in her head is amazing.
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He must remember the word and carry it in his head for some time, and so is writing from an image.
cast your mind back
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Cast you mind back a few weeks to the Athletics Championship in Armagh.
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He frowned, casting his mind back over the conversation they had held.
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Henry cast his mind back to the fateful evening.
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Lisa, if you cast your mind back, I think you'll recall that it was your idea.
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Again, more in control of matters, he cast his mind back.
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He cast his mind back to his homecoming earlier that evening.
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He racked his brains, he cast his mind back.
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I cast my mind back to our excited departure from Gatwick airport.
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Let us cast our minds back to the referendum.
change your mind
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At first the doctor said I was suffering from a virus, but now he's changed his mind.
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Barry hadn't changed his mind about leaving.
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Everyone has a right to change their mind.
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I'm hoping Dad will change his mind about Louise after he meets her tonight.
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I've changed my mind about the Riviera. I do like it after all.
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If you change your mind about the job, just give me a call.
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No, I'm not going out tonight. I've changed my mind.
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Use a pencil so you can erase it if you change your mind.
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What if she changes her mind and doesn't turn up?
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But if students actively dislike school, higher standards and better assessments are not going to change their minds.
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But why Zeus changed his mind and whether Prometheus revealed the secret when he was freed, we do not know.
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Carruthers, I don't know what will happen now, but I have changed my mind.
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Good software gives you the power to change your mind.
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He knew what he had to do and he got up and did it before he changed his mind.
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Pete lifted his knight but changed his mind and put it back on the board.
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Schlesinger first thought him wrong for Ratso, but changed his mind when they met in New York.
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When he met Lee the next morning at nine, he said he had changed his mind about going back.
clear your head/mind
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I go for a long walk at lunchtime to clear my head.
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Gao Yang recalled that the wall barely cleared his head at the time.
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He leaned against the wall desperately trying to clear his mind but the memory proved elusive.
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He wants a few days to clear his head.
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His meeting with the Holtzes seemed to have refreshed Alvin and cleared his mind.
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If not, the cold would clear his head.
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She cleared her head of Rory, all that nonsense.
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She needed the hot draught of caffeine to clear her head.
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So, clear your mind, get out your No. 2 pencils and do your best: 1.
close your mind to/against sth
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Academic interpretations held off the shame for a while, but then he could no longer close his mind to it.
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Bambi's closed her mind to it.
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He could tell by her eyes that she had closed her mind to him.
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I closed my ears and tried to close my mind to what was happening.
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Memories of her grandmother's judgements obtruded themselves and she closed her mind against them.
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She had immediately closed her mind to all thought, not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan's hand.
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She stretched out on the bed, closing her mind to the sounds and waited.
cross sb's mind
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"It never crossed my mind to give up," he said. "It became an obsession."
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"Why didn't you call me?" "The thought did cross my mind while I was shopping this afternoon, but then I forgot all about it.
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It crossed my mind that I was the only female coach on the committee, but that made me more determined than ever.
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Several times it had crossed his mind to check on the car, but he never actually did it.
ease sb's mind
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Knowing that he's getting good medical care does ease my mind.
fix your attention/eyes/mind etc on sb/sth
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I gulped, and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk.
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She fixed her eyes on Mr Hollins's face and waited for his answer.
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She fixed her eyes on the jagged line of rocks to which she had to climb.
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She fixed her eyes on the street in an attempt to calm herself.
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She couldn't turn round so she fixed her eyes on her two brothers on the altar.
flash through sb's mind/head/brain
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Each time I see one of these cocoons hanging from a tree, all of these marvels flash through my mind.
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Her body seemed determined to ignore the danger signals now at last flashing through her brain.
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It flashed through my mind that I was close.
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The image of the guard in his elaborate flowering prison flashes through her head.
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The only idea that flashed through my head was that some one had broken into the house and was attacking Master Yehudi.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds.
give sb a piece of your mind
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I was so mad that I called back and gave her a piece of my mind.
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If one of the kids is being sassy, Inez gives them a piece of her mind.
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Boy, am I going to give him a piece of my mind when I see him.
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But it was worth it, to give Hilda Machin a piece of her mind.
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I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind.
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Ready to give somebody a piece of her mind, Aunt Pat strode to the front door and flung it open.
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She'd give Gloria a piece of her mind when she got home!
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She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind.
great minds (think alike)
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Great visions are the signs of great minds and there were few greater visions than those of Newton and Einstein.
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Alas, there is no space to give a proper account of the thoughts of these great minds.
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Some of the confusion would certainly have been lessened if the two great minds had had opportunities to exchange ideas.
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That presents no danger if our great minds are in Paris or London or the United States.
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The excitement of the intellectual revolution produced some great minds and some important discoveries.
habit of thought/mind
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And such habits of mind survive the passage of time.
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But a habit of mind, something much more important, will stay with young people.
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Has this become a habit of mind?
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If views are similar it's because habits of thought are the same.
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The care of the interior demands an obsessive habit of mind.
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These habits of thought and action enable a business or work group to take full credit for the triumphs it achieves.
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This was his habit of mind.
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What habits of thought could matter more?
have a lot on your mind
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I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention, I have a lot on my mind at the moment.
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Since the divorce, Linda's had a lot on her mind.
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Stacy didn't go to the party on Saturday because she had a lot on her mind.
have a one-track mind
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That guy has a one-track mind.
have half a mind to do sth
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I have half a mind to just go home.
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I have half a mind to tell her what I really think of her.
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I have half a mind to make you take this right back.
know your own mind
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I'm in my mid-thirties and ought to know my own mind by now, but I'm scared of getting married.
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Though not yet 15, Sara knows her own mind, and has already decided on a career.
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All of which suggests a person who knows his own mind and makes his own decisions.
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He hardly knew his own mind, they said candidly among their own intimates.
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People often didn't know their own minds.
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Shirley giggled and said I was a woman who knew her own mind, wasn't I, Jim?
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You don't know your own mind.
literal-minded
lose your mind
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What are you doing on the roof? Have you lost your mind?
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Either she was losing her mind, or she'd followed the wrong man.
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Is Roberto correct when he insists that he is innocent and she has lost her mind?
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Obviously she was losing her mind.
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PipThe Negro cabin boy who loses his mind when abandoned temporarily in the sea.
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Some victims feel they are losing their minds or are about to die.
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The musicians are completely losing their minds.
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There came a day shortly afterwards when I could no longer ignore the fact that he was losing his mind.
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What is not bogus is the position Selda Soyturk is in today because a guy lost his mind behind the wheel.
meeting of minds
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Also there would be no meeting of minds in such a procedure.
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But scriptwriter and narrator Indra Sinha said the video emphasised the meeting of minds as well as bodies.
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He says that he hopes that there will be a meeting of minds on how to deal with traffic problems.
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Only if I used the example of all mankind's progress towards Paradise was there any meeting of minds.
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There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue.
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There was no trust between them, no meeting of minds.
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Why such a strange meeting of minds?
mind/brain candy
my mind's a blank
nothing could be/is further from sb's mind/thoughts
occupy sb's mind/thoughts/attention
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While she waited, she tried to occupy her mind with pleasant thoughts of the vacation.
open your mind (to sth)
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As the days go by open your mind to what is going on around you - what are other people's goals?
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He opened his mind to the sounds of the city.
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If you open your mind, then you see it really does have feeling.
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Television is a powerful force to bring people together to entertain, to educate, to open our minds and hearts.
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The overall influence of Seattle opened his mind on a few things.
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Very soon the research opened my mind to more subtle ideas.
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We are duty-bound to search, question, open our minds.
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We must break down the barriers of conditioning and open our minds to far higher goals.
out of sight, out of mind
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I tucked it in the back of a drawer, figuring out of sight , out of mind.
plant an idea/doubt/suspicion (in sb's mind)
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Their conversation had planted doubts in Dennis' mind about the partnership.
pollute sb's mind
pop into your head/mind
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A line from an old drinking song popped into his head.
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And Arnie was the first lie that popped into her head.
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Funny, the sort of things which popped into your head.
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List these assets and liabilities at random as they pop into your mind or as they are suggested to you by others.
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Whenever the question of whether or not she needed him popped into her head, Constance conveniently ducked it.
prey on sb's mind
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But his main preoccupation was with the unfinished Requiem, which had begun to prey on his mind.
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Important items which are left have a habit of preying on the mind.
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It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital.
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It was Tatiana preying on his mind.
push sth out of your mind
put/set sb's mind at rest
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But let me set your mind at rest .
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But she'd like to see him, to try and set her mind at rest .
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He's been very kind to me and Lily, as regards putting our minds at rest about Stella.
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He's unlikely to know how you feel, and until he does, he can't put your mind at rest .
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He must set their minds at rest about the Freddie affair, because they knew of Freddie.
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I wish I could put their minds at rest .
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It puts my mind at rest .
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Quite often, all that is required is a friendly chat to put your mind at rest .
read sb's mind/thoughts
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Don't expect your spouse to be able to read your mind.
sb's cast of mind
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Interpreting the stories depends on the reader's own cast of mind.
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But does he have the right cast of mind for a post-cold-war world now in its second decade?
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It became a cast of mind, a framework for existence.
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It was rooted in a cast of mind raised to an ethic in the professions.
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Moreover, it raises an interesting question about the cast of mind of the government as a whole as it seeks re-election.
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Nor, if we are in civilised cast of mind, because we wish to become drunk.
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This cast of mind is easily recognizable as the outlook of the traditional ruling class.
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This cast of mind survived for decades.
sb's mind is wandering
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My mind is wandering , as Isabel has said, I forget things.
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Paul finds his mind is wandering , thinking about the poll tax program again.
serious-minded/evil-minded etc
set your heart/mind/sights on (doing) sth
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But where there are sellers there are buyers, and it was this latter rare species we had set our sights on.
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Gazing intently into her computer screen, Christine Montgomery has set her sights on the next generation of electronic language translators.
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He knew he was bound to pull any girl he set his mind on - he always had.
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Heath had set her sights on the U. S. Senate seat from Colorado.
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Her youth and beauty elicited a predictable reaction from my father, who set his sights on her at once.
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Sofa Head's greatest asset is the realisation that you don't have to set your sights on one target.
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Wagner set his sights on a degree in electrical engineering, and he followed his star with a fervid intensity.
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Yes, she thought, if Tamar had set her mind on something she would never rest until it was accomplished.
slip your mind/memory
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He had seemed thrown for a moment, as though it had genuinely slipped his mind that he was about to be married.
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I can't believe it has slipped my mind.
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It slipped my mind because of the tragedy that followed.
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It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft!
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It had slipped his mind entirely that today.
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Jean hadn't even asked Helen what she had said; the entire episode had slipped her mind.
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Yes, that had slipped her mind.
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You think something as important as that would slip my mind?
speak your mind
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Larry isn't afraid to speak his mind, even in front of the boss.
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Sam has never been shy about speaking his mind.
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She's very direct and believes in speaking her mind.
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She believes in speaking her mind, which makes her very unpopular.
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We thought that the process of filming might stop people from speaking their minds.
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Dean Shearer was a man of compassion, humility and integrity who was never afraid to speak his mind.
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Even if they disagree sometimes with what he says, they like a candidate who speaks his mind.
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He dawdled, afraid to say no or resist her or speak his mind.
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Nizan generally spoke his mind and refused to pull his punches.
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The company insists Vinik spoke his mind at the time comments were made and he simply changed his opinions.
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What does one say in a culture that hesitates to speak its mind?
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With Freemantle Leapor could easily speak her mind; to have the same confidence with new readers would take time.
spring to (sb's) mind
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Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind.
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Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.
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If we think of the ways in which the term research is used, a variety of activities spring to mind.
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Impressive was the first word that sprang to mind.
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Noble was the word which sprang to Amabel's mind.
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Some comic examples spring to mind.
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That written, qualifications immediately spring to mind.
sth concentrates the mind
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Equally the Tender concentrates the mind wonderfully in a way that a final offer by letter from the insurer can not.
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It concentrates the mind better than anything I know.
stick in sb's mind
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My uncle told me the story when I was little, and it's always stuck in my mind.
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But it stuck in my mind.
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I think those types of things stick in children's minds, so I didn't want her there.
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It is not surprising that phrases do not stick in the mind.
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It must have stuck in her mind, that an honest person might act out of character when severely threatened.
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One incident that has always stuck in my mind was when I dove for my foxhole at the opening mortar round.
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Perhaps the image is just so startling that it sticks in our minds.
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The whole weekend had been unsettling, which was perhaps why the game had stuck in her mind.
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Yet the one small doubt stuck in her mind like a burr in tweed.
stick out to sb/stick out in sb's mind
the hearts and minds of sb
the/your mind boggles,
time out of mind
turn of mind
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He is a very intelligent man with a scientific turn of mind.
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Certainly there were Gallo-Romans of an independent turn of mind in the south.
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She was a plain girl, with straight hair and thin limbs and a mathematical turn of mind.
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Very often students' inventive turn of mind can be useful at such formats, and they will largely be absent.
wipe sth from your mind/memory
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And when he had done with her, she could wipe him from her mind, obliterate him.
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He cared nothing for his wife and daughter and they must wipe him from their minds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At the back of my mind I had the funny feeling that I'd met her somewhere before.
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Cuomo is one of our foremost political minds.
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Dave struggled hard to push these worries out of his mind .
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Grandma's body is wearing out, but her mind is as sharp as ever.
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His mind was full of big ideas for developing the company.
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I don't really have a scientific mind .
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I made up my mind I was going to retire.
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I never know what's going on in her mind .
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It's hard to understand what's going on in Susanna's mind .
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It was an interesting idea. Jeff turned it over in his mind on the way to work.
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O'Rourke has a very devious mind .
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Peacher has an incredibly good mind .
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She had a picture of him in her mind - tall, blond and handsome.
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The same thoughts kept going through my mind and I couldn't get to sleep.
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The teacher talked on and on and my mind began to wander.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At night, while he slept, his mind was still full of music.
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But planners changed their mind as they realized the channels would have to be bigger and bigger.
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But those wines give only momentary pleasure and thereafter the senses are dulled and the mind is clouded.
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He is reputed to have been an able administrator with a keen mind for commerce.
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In his mind , Jim could vividly picture the red bulb of the thermometer in the relaxation exercise Miller had given him.
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Keep that in mind because without it all the fine planning in the world will never be translated into action.
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Then, since the reality of my situation could hardly be worse, my mind turned once again to philosophy.
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We can not see them or turn our minds from them.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
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Never mind that Prime Ministers do not actually own the Elgin marbles.
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Never mind that it just might provide a superior education to those who choose to attend.
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We don't know were your dad is and he's lost altogether I suppose but never mind him.
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Never mind that Jair is a force in Pop Warner football, whose weight limit he also is about to outgrow.
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But never mind the trash shops and the coach lamps.
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Never mind that he does run on a bit.
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How could any man want to lay a finger on her, never mind father her children?
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But never mind , he would send for Basha.
■ NOUN
business
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Then I felt a fool and decided to leave it and mind my own business .
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He also fired his lawyer and told civil libertarians to mind their own business .
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His life had been well-ordered and reasonably happy, he thought, by minding his own business .
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He had not minded his own business as a man of seventy in New York should do.
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She hoped he didn't interpret them as telling him to mind his own business .
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Needless to say, Lleland became enraged at the idea and told me to mind my own business .
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In Havana in April, Fidel Castro politely told him to mind his own business .
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Here nobody else minded your business .
fact
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Never mind the fact that some of us remember individual offices and desks first time around.
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Nor did they mind the fact that she was constantly picking up and leaving for short periods to fulfill speaking engagements elsewhere.
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At this stage, thoughts will no doubt come to mind which are in fact untrue.
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Never mind the fact that, in market economies, almost any economic activity can sometimes be said to meet this test.
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His boss doesn't mind , in fact she often turns up to listen.
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Red Rum may have won the race, but never mind the facts .
shop
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Carrie had been minding the shop .
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I have to mind the shop here.
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Emily and Maudie can mind the shop quite well without me, so I can look after Josh and the boys.
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But never mind the trash shops and the coach lamps.
spring
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That written, qualifications immediately spring to mind .
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Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind .
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Sheridan and Cantona are the prime examples that spring to mind .
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They are not words which spring immediately to mind when considering the honours system in general.
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Leading Leisure and Corton Beach spring to mind .
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Geographically based organisations Geographically based organisations such as retail businesses readily spring to mind .
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It will be useful for processor hungry applications - spreadsheets, graphics applications, and multitasking spring readily to mind .
thought
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A thought suddenly came to mind .
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Weiss' comment brings several thoughts to mind , about a subject on which little thinking has been done.
■ VERB
bring
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It brings to mind the ludicrous feud between Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams, who need their silly heads knocking together.
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Tourists are drawn to them in a spirit of nostalgia for the courage they recall and the peacefulness they bring to mind .
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Whatever it was that he could not bring to mind must lie in the past.
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Those are the still the first words that cancer brings to mind .
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It brings to mind Danny Baker's comment about Millwall under Rioch, that they should play in grey kits.
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The scale and spirit of the iron creatures on display brought to mind one image: mechanical dinosaurs without skin.
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This shot brings to mind one very important aspect of tropical island work.
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Which brings to mind that old saw about being careful what you wish for...
call
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The two incidents which were called to mind related to the Company golf scene.
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He erupted for two dazzling touchdowns, calling to mind his 235-yard, signature effort against Washington in the 1993 Rose Bowl.
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What, or whom, does it call to mind ?
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His words called to mind our own culpability, which we find hard to admit.
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Mungo nodded, calling to mind a diabetic schoolfriend who had to inject himself daily.
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This move should call to mind some remarks made in 2.4 about the causal theory of knowledge.
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There we were, in a church bedecked with flowers, in arrangements calling to mind every aspect of parish life.
come
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Other scenarios come to mind when exploring further areas of development for the partnership.
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Dame Edna and sausage rolls come immediately to mind .
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She was disappointed to find that nothing came immediately to mind .
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The two sources of power that first come to mind are solar and nuclear.
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It's amazing the ideas that can come to mind with a little thought and some extra effort on your part.
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The students here are not those who come to mind for most of us when we think about school success.
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The acid-sweet pastels of 1950s' food photography come to mind .
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Paramour comes to mind , but that is a neuter term.
hope
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I do hope you won't mind .
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Oh, by the way, I ran off copies for myself, I hope you don't mind .
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I hope you didn't mind my asking you to come here.
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I do hope she doesn't mind lending you for just one dinner.
seem
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The ducks don't seem to mind it, cos there's quite a few swimming about now.
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But no one seemed to mind .
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Mrs Baggley didn't seem to mind .
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Renie never seemed to mind wearing clothes that reeked of onions, fried fish, boiled cabbage.
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Her parents did not seem to mind that he had no qualifications and had not finished his university course.
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Nobody seems to mind that much.
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But in the half light, he didn't seem to mind .
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Most Westerners would have found this diet a privation: Langford seems not to have minded it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fertile imagination/mind/brain
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Even now no-one seems quite certain whether this was a fact, a half-fact or the product of a fertile imagination.
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He is said to have been convivial, widely knowledgeable, with a fertile imagination and a whimsical sense of humour.
a fevered imagination/mind/brain
a nimble mind/brain/wit
a tidy mind
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Henry had a tidy mind, and he was practical.
an inquiring mind
an open mind
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And later she was going to try to get herself to that meeting with an open mind.
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Before he resolves a problem, he keeps an open mind on how that problem might be resolved.
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But officially as least the police are still keeping an open mind.
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He insists he has an open mind on the players he wants to keep.
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In interviews after their inaugural meeting last Thursday, all vowed to keep an open mind on whoever comes before the panel.
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Police say they're keeping an open mind.
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Until the Profitboss makes a decision, he keeps an open mind as to what that decision might be.
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While keeping an open mind, most archaeologists remain extremely doubtful.
at/in the back of your mind
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I was hurt that she'd left, but I guess at the back of my mind I always knew she would.
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There was always a slight feeling of fear at the back of his mind.
be in two minds (about sth)
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As ever, he was in two minds about Clarac's value to the project.
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Do you know, he was in two minds about accepting?
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For a second he was in two minds about it.
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I am in two minds whether to change the engine or repair it.
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In her own cottage a few miles away the witch Agnes Nitt was in two minds about her new pointy hat.
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Please be warned: they are capable of getting through that gap which you are in two minds about bothering to block.
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They were not to be in two minds.
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This time she seemed to be in two minds about what to do.
be in/at/to the forefront of sb's mind/attention etc
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The risks of a court case also have to be in the forefront of your mind.
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This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone's attention.
be minded to do sth
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At about this time the plaintiff became suspicious that the appellants were minded to sell the property at Westbourne Grove.
be uppermost in your mind
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Succeeding in her career was uppermost in her mind.
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In fact, financial problems may not be uppermost in her mind.
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In fact, they brought up the question before I could do so because it was uppermost in their minds.
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It was only natural that that thought should be uppermost in her mind.
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Nor was there the slightest need to tell her of the thoughts that were uppermost in his mind.
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She was certain, however, that it was not the weather that was uppermost in his mind.
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Still, the aspect of that news which affected himself was uppermost in his mind, threatening to swamp such minor worries.
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The one which was uppermost in her mind was Maurin.
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Two thoughts were uppermost in my mind.
give sb a piece of your mind
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I was so mad that I called back and gave her a piece of my mind.
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If one of the kids is being sassy, Inez gives them a piece of her mind.
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Boy, am I going to give him a piece of my mind when I see him.
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But it was worth it, to give Hilda Machin a piece of her mind.
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I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind.
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Ready to give somebody a piece of her mind, Aunt Pat strode to the front door and flung it open.
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She'd give Gloria a piece of her mind when she got home!
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She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind.
great minds (think alike)
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Great visions are the signs of great minds and there were few greater visions than those of Newton and Einstein.
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Alas, there is no space to give a proper account of the thoughts of these great minds.
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Some of the confusion would certainly have been lessened if the two great minds had had opportunities to exchange ideas.
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That presents no danger if our great minds are in Paris or London or the United States.
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The excitement of the intellectual revolution produced some great minds and some important discoveries.
habit of thought/mind
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And such habits of mind survive the passage of time.
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But a habit of mind, something much more important, will stay with young people.
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Has this become a habit of mind?
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If views are similar it's because habits of thought are the same.
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The care of the interior demands an obsessive habit of mind.
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These habits of thought and action enable a business or work group to take full credit for the triumphs it achieves.
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This was his habit of mind.
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What habits of thought could matter more?
have a lot on your mind
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I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention, I have a lot on my mind at the moment.
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Since the divorce, Linda's had a lot on her mind.
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Stacy didn't go to the party on Saturday because she had a lot on her mind.
have a one-track mind
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That guy has a one-track mind.
have half a mind to do sth
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I have half a mind to just go home.
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I have half a mind to tell her what I really think of her.
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I have half a mind to make you take this right back.
literal-minded
meeting of minds
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Also there would be no meeting of minds in such a procedure.
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But scriptwriter and narrator Indra Sinha said the video emphasised the meeting of minds as well as bodies.
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He says that he hopes that there will be a meeting of minds on how to deal with traffic problems.
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Only if I used the example of all mankind's progress towards Paradise was there any meeting of minds.
▪
There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue.
▪
There was no trust between them, no meeting of minds.
▪
Why such a strange meeting of minds?
mind/brain candy
my mind's a blank
nothing could be/is further from sb's mind/thoughts
out of sight, out of mind
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I tucked it in the back of a drawer, figuring out of sight , out of mind.
put/set sb's mind at rest
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But let me set your mind at rest .
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But she'd like to see him, to try and set her mind at rest .
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He's been very kind to me and Lily, as regards putting our minds at rest about Stella.
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He's unlikely to know how you feel, and until he does, he can't put your mind at rest .
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He must set their minds at rest about the Freddie affair, because they knew of Freddie.
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I wish I could put their minds at rest .
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It puts my mind at rest .
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Quite often, all that is required is a friendly chat to put your mind at rest .
sb was (just) minding their own business
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I was just walking along, minding my own business , when this guy ran straight into me.
sb's cast of mind
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Interpreting the stories depends on the reader's own cast of mind.
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But does he have the right cast of mind for a post-cold-war world now in its second decade?
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It became a cast of mind, a framework for existence.
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It was rooted in a cast of mind raised to an ethic in the professions.
▪
Moreover, it raises an interesting question about the cast of mind of the government as a whole as it seeks re-election.
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Nor, if we are in civilised cast of mind, because we wish to become drunk.
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This cast of mind is easily recognizable as the outlook of the traditional ruling class.
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This cast of mind survived for decades.
serious-minded/evil-minded etc
the hearts and minds of sb
time out of mind
turn of mind
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He is a very intelligent man with a scientific turn of mind.
▪
Certainly there were Gallo-Romans of an independent turn of mind in the south.
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She was a plain girl, with straight hair and thin limbs and a mathematical turn of mind.
▪
Very often students' inventive turn of mind can be useful at such formats, and they will largely be absent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Are you sure your mother doesn't mind ?
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He spends as much time as his wife minding the children.
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Mothers who work part-time are able to mind other people's children when they are not working.
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Of course I don't mind if you bring a few friends over.
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The woman who minds Pip and Emma collects them from school and gives them an evening meal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Never mind love, never mind passion.
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Never mind opponents lacking the bottle to take on the Old Trafford stars.
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Nobody seems to mind that much.
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Owen knew this and didn't mind it.
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Though whether he minded or not I'd no idea.
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When you only used to do four or five a year - never mind five in one weekend.
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You might not mind fur on blankets and bedspreads, but the next guest could be allergic to animals.