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

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

She helped me so much - took my 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.

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

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

Great, now he didn't even have Dawn to take his mind off things.

Still, he said to himself, if it takes his mind off things it's all right by me.

And I had another source of interest, to take my mind off things to some extent.