"How about if I tell you a story instead, to take your mind off things?"

She helped me so much - took my mind off things.

He didn't care about the money, in all truth, but having a conference to run might keep his mind off things.

What he needed was something to keep his mind off things.

This exercise was a good way to take his mind off things.

I thought it would do him a great deal of good, and take his mind off other things.

I'm talking to Death, he thought, to take my mind off things.

That'll take your mind off things for the time being.

I'm sure that it will take your mind off things.

I had to do something to get my mind off things.