This takes your mind off the panic attack.
Work takes your mind in a direction you might not otherwise go.
"Takes your mind off the calories, doesn't it?" she wrote in an e-mail message.
"It takes your mind off the stresses of the day-to-day world.
"It takes your mind off of everything else," said Ernst, who played his final three holes in one under.
"I think whenever you're in football, it takes your mind off a lot of things," he said, not mentioning the girlfriend.
"It certainly takes your mind off it when you're in the midst of what you do," Rankin said of her return to work.
How lovely to hear a bit of daft imagination that takes your mind on flights of fancy, away from reality with its thudding grimness.
But raw eggs make no sense at all, Dr. Wiese said, "unless it's that the pain of eating the raw egg takes your mind off" the hangover.
"It takes your mind off it," said Robert Weinberg, 59, who traveled with his 18-year-old son, Matt, from Colts Neck, N.J. "And now we don't have to deal with the Knicks fans".
"As soon as I got out there and started playing catch, it takes your mind off all the bad stuff," Neshek told The San Francisco Chronicle and other outlets that regularly cover the A's.
