have a mind to
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It was a terrible pity, but finally nothing can stop the poets destroying themselves if they have a mind to.
From The Guardian
If you have a mind to share something to drink, wine director Carrie Omegna has assembled some interesting, reasonably priced bottles from France and the Northwest.
From Seattle Times
Then it turned to, ‘I have a mind to fly to Vegas and find you. ’The next thing I knew, my mom texted me, ‘Someone dropped off a letter in our door.’
From Fox News
Pointing out that one would expect slave masters to be kind to their own children, he coolly analyzes the truth: “Men do not love those who remind them of their sins unless they have a mind to repent—and the mulatto child’s face is a standing accusation against him who is master and father to the child. What is still worse, perhaps, such a child is a constant offense to the wife. She hates its very presence.”
From The New Yorker
“I don’t believe he can have a mind to do anything else,” he said.
From MSNBC
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