He tore his mind away from the vision in front of him and got back to business.

But he does concede that something is tearing his mind from the game.

"I tore my mind into a thousand pieces, and scattered it to the winds."

He tore his mind away from Ping and forced himself to focus on the federal agent.

He thought fugitively of Earth, then tore his mind away.

I could not tear my mind away from the past.

She tore her mind away from that dilemma and stared at the screen.

He tore the envelope open, his mind full of various pleasing conjectures.

When that effort failed he sought to tear his mind out of the image at once, terrible though the dangers were in doing so.

Khrest wanted to tear his mind away from such thoughts.