'V in n' - Construction 5
| Name: | The stick in the mind construction |
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| Description: | A thought, emotion or memory stays or moves into a person's mind. |
| Verbs: | live, lodge, rise, stick, stir, surge, well, live on, surge up, well up |
| Example: | The images of the victims … stuck in his mind. (BNC) |
| Membership: | place; figurative |
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Fields: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Phenomenon-Topic; NP2: Cognizer
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