Desperately, she turned back towards the room and tried to apply her mind to more practical matters.
He attended college for a year, but found he could apply his mind better at home.
Looking down corrected the illusion, so instead he applied his mind to the business in hand.
He took a deep breath and applied his mind to the case-sheet.
So, even in the middle of her distress, she had applied her mind to the problem.
In the decade that followed, another gentleman applied his mind to advancing the state of the art.
He'll apply his mind, salvage whatever he can from the only life God will ever give him.
You pick me out some of the right kind, and I'll apply my mind to them.
I was fairly sure that, as an educated man, you would apply your mind to what had happened.
"And I think you'd better start applying your mind to the matter also."