at the back of your mind
in the back of your mind

I don't know if you consciously wanted to talk with someone, or whether the thought was just at the back of your mind.

At the back of your mind you think she is concerned somehow in this case."

But all along your true mission was at the back of your mind.

And at the back of your mind, you know there can be no excuses for getting out, so the mental pressure becomes huge.

Until then, there is always nagging doubt at the back of your mind - it might not be Rachel.

Wherever you go from here, you remember to listen for me at the back of your mind.

"It's always there at the back of your mind.

Nevertheless, just a tiny little doubt should lurk somewhere at the back of your mind.

'There you see - fire and burning at the back of your mind again.

That is not to say retirement is not at the back of your mind.

Don't turn them, somewhere at the back of your mind, into something they aren't and wouldn't pretend to be.

Either you reject me here and now or you have already at the back of your mind a desire to know me further.

Just put it in a box at the back of your mind, marked For Future Reference.

"Tell me, cousin, if you can, about that niggling worry you have at the back of your mind."

"Somewhere at the back of your mind you are giving houseroom to the proposition that unlike causes can produce like results.

But at the back of your mind is that tiny little bit of survival instinct: let's wait and see, maybe they won't, there's always a chance .

"Everyone was under contract so at the back of your mind you do think that you will get it eventually, you just have to save a little more.

There will be times (as in the second example) when it's more useful to keep the question at the back of your mind; asking it directly might be too intimidating.

Maybe I shied away so that you'd grow up as normally as you can, without always having that prospect gnawing away at the back of your mind.

I don't mean that he ever threatened me with that, or ever reminded me of it, just that it's always at the back of your mind.'

It was as if nothing special had happened the night before - no more than a bad dream that stays at the back of your mind long after you have woken up.

But they would still, I think, retain something of their virtue; and if you read them with the tune at the back of your mind, they usually have a positive sparkle.

Rourke looked hard at the woman, saying, his voice a whisper, "Yeah- and you know what you owe him, too, I think-right at the back of your mind somewhere.

'If you don't go, you'll have it at the back of your mind for the rest of your life, wondering what it would have been like to really know him.

None of us thinks about the dangers, but we all know they're there, niggling away at the back of your mind, and now that I've got children you start to question what you're doing.

Sure, last year is in the back of your mind.

It's always got to be in the back of your mind.

In the back of your mind, she is going to the army.

You know you've always had it in the back of your mind.

"You just have to keep that in the back of your mind."

You're not thinking about it on the court, but it's in the back of your mind.

"No matter what you are doing that whole time, it's always in the back of your mind."

Somewhere in the back of your mind you understand this.

"But I guess in the back of your mind you hope that it might turn into something more serious."

"But they're in the back of your mind and you want Halloween to take a break from them."

A thing like that sticks in the back of your mind.

"But it's hard not to have it in the back of your mind."

"The regulations are always in the back of your mind," he said.

"In the back of your mind is: Are they going to send you over there if war broke out?"

Keep in the back of your mind "tease her" every time you make love to a women.

But still in the back of your mind, you know somebody somewhere is hurting.

"But, I mean, stuff be in the back of your mind."

"I think sometimes that plays in the back of your mind.

But that's what you had in the back of your mind when you came here.

"It is in the back of your mind," Piazza said when asked about missing the season.

He might try something different this time, but you have to have that in the back of your mind.

"Obviously that comes into play; it's in the back of your mind," the Duke center said.

Would you want even the remotest possibility in the back of your mind?

I imagine that somewhere in the back of your mind, you have known all along."

But you have those thoughts in the back of your mind: what happens if something goes wrong?"