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‘A mind may have a back.’

[⟨det mind.nhave.v ⟨det back.n⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It had been okay when it was just a dark secret that slept in the back of his mind.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It stayed with him, the same way his mother’s hands stayed on Thorpe’s face and shoulders, an unsettling image that lurked in the back of his mind and ambushed him whenever he was in the middle of talking.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m well and truly over having the thought of her linger in the back of my mind to the extent of I just want to head but something… hard…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And somewhere, in the back of my mind, I wondered, “Hmm, I wonder what would happen if I put my thumb here and pushed really hard?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Before I read a single word, I knew in the back of my mind that the following passage would consist of various interest groups complaining about their misrepresentation in the media, and how assorted television programs and movies used harmful stereotypes that they found offensive.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m hanging out more and I feel energized and I’m never bored, but there’s this feeling in the back of my mind that I’m not good enough.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As each step takes him further away from her, he is aware only of the feel of her eyes on his back and the continuous stream of nauseating thoughts screaming at the back of his mind.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He had a clock going in the back of his mind, and every step told him’ too damn long, too damn far. ’
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I won *n’t even feel that much better if I say to myself’ ’ well, there’ll be down time’ ’ because the back of my mind knows me better than that.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There was some kind of tension growing in the back of Vernor’s mind?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The instant – on craze has been nagging at the back of my mind as something I’ve used before.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It’s transparent, all the way in the back of my mind instead of all around me, constantly superimposed by the interior view of the bus or subway I was riding, or the reading room in the library where I spent a few hours with the girls as we got some quiet reading done.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When I don’t want to deal with something I ignore it and put it in the back of my mind.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I knew in the back of my mind that I was playing in my 40th final and he was in his first one, so I knew that had to count for something.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He knew he wasn’t supposed to be enjoying it – he knew, somewhere in the back of his mind, that this would make Geirvarr angry, and it was supposed to be wrong, but he couldn’t help but respond, press back hesitantly when Mikjall coaxed him to do so.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We read stories about this all the time, and it was something in the back of my mind.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Or maybe Ontario, because I still have UWO in the back of my mind.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Dimly he was aware of other deliveries he was supposed to be doing, the useful information having been pushed to the back of his mind in the heated moments.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Something sparked in the back of his mind.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.