'V in n' - Construction 5

Name: The stick in the mind construction
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
Semantic fields and roles: Fields: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Phenomenon-Topic; NP2: Cognizer
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