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17 Sentences With "had a mind to"

How to use had a mind to in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "had a mind to" and check conjugation/comparative form for "had a mind to". Mastering all the usages of "had a mind to" from sentence examples published by news publications.

I've always had a mind to show it with some context.
If the world had a mind to harm, it would do so to the prepared and the unprepared equally.
But he wanted to finish his route, and he had a mind to check on some houses with elderly or disabled residents.
If it had a mind to do so, through its new buyback, Palantir could have also locked up many current and former employees through a filing prospectus and even, conceivably, through the first months after a public offering.
I'd say it looked like what Corky St. Clair of "Waiting for Guffman" would come up with if he had a mind to make a "Mad Max: Fury Road" knockoff, but that would be insulting to Corky St. Clair.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads If you had a mind to teach a college class on the historical relationship between artists to their patrons, you could very well title it "The Dialectics of Portrait Painting," due to the way in which each character needs and utilizes the other to endorse and corroborate their social position and expertise.
As he wrote in a letter, in his delicate, charming way:  I was from early days grieved by the poverty of my own beloved country: it had no stories of its own (bound up with its tongue and soil)… But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story… which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country.
Soothly, as he followed after me, I had a mind to turn about and deal him a buffet on the face, to see if I could but draw one angry word from him.
"Ploughing time had come, and when we had a mind to plough that field outside, it is the way we found it, ploughed, and harrowed, and sowed with wheat. When we had a mind to reap it, the wheat was found in the haggard, all in one thatched rick. We have been using it from that day to this, and it is no bigger and no less." Then they turned the pig, and another quarter was found to be ready.
All those rosy ideas we had before starting have melted, > and I have now to fight against impossibilities. A hundred times I had a > mind to go out of the country and come back to India. > ... ... ... > After such a struggle, I am not going to give up easily. Only try your best > to help me as much as you can; and even if you cannot, I must try to the > end.
But she says Elvira's actions are not for her, because at heart she is still a Catholic schoolgirl. Elvira tells a story about Jack, just before they were married, and how he said he would "climb aboard a porcupine" if he had a mind to. The two couples get together that night, and get slightly high on pot. Pulling out a trunk of costumes, they decide to play dress up.
Antiquities of the Jews. 17.346. Josephus identified the Essenes as one of the three major Jewish sects of that period.And when I was about sixteen years old, I had a mind to make trial of the several sects that were among us. These sects are three: The first is that of the Pharisees, the second that Sadducees, and the third that of the Essenes, as we have frequently told you The Life of Josephus Flavius, 2.
Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7, Part 1. 'The citizens, therefore, who had no land, had scarce any other means of subsistence but the bounties of the candidates at the annual elections. The tribunes, when they had a mind to animate the people against the rich and the great, put them in mind of the ancient divisions of lands, and represented that law which restricted this sort of private property as the fundamental law of the republic.
It is known from her letters dated October 1902 to Abendanon and her husband that at the age of 23, Raden Adjeng Kartini had a mind to live a vegetarian life. "It has been for some time that we are thinking to do it (to be a vegetarian), I have even eaten only vegetables for years now, but I still don't have enough moral courage to carry on. I am still too young," R.A. Kartini once wrote. She also emphasized the relationship of this kind of life with religious thoughts.
The Poe Log, p. 168. It was later published in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1845. The original epigraph preceding the story was from William Shakespeare's As You Like It: "The heathen philosopher, when he had a mind to eat a grape, would open his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and lips to open." Poe's final version of the story had a longer epigraph in verse from Les Premiers Traits de l'erudition universelle (The Most Important Characteristics of Universal Wisdom) by Baron Bielfeld.
There was a slightly earlier Japanese woodprint by Kawanabe Kyosai in his Isoho Monogotari series (1870–80) which shows peacocks attacking a prostrate crow.View online In general the artist was dependent on John Tenniel's illustrations of the fables for his interpretations, but in this case the print is similar to the picture in the Croxall edition of 1814.View online There is an amusing nod in the fable's direction in Amelia Bauerle's etching "Fine feathers make fine birds" in The Yellow Book.April 1897 Although the proverb is an alternative for 'Clothes make the man', the benignant wallpaper peacock bending over the little girl as she shows off her plumed hat suggests that it might pluck away the feathers if it had a mind to.
A letter sent by Thomas Gresham to the Privy Council in 1554, relating to the shipment of 50 cases of Spanish reals (coins) from Seville to England, explained that each case was "marked with the broad arrow and numbered from 1 to 50". (text calendared and modernised). A proclamation of Charles I issued in 1627 ordered that tobacco imported to England from non-English plantations should be sealed with "a seale engraven with a broad Arrow and a Portcullice". A proclamation issued by Charles II in 1661 ran: An Order in Council of 1664, relating to the requisitioning of merchant ships for naval use, similarly authorised the Commissioners of the Navy "to put the broad arrow on any ship in the River they had a mind to hire, and fit them out for sea"; while the Embezzlement of Public Stores Act 1697 (9 Will.

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