Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] of [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 2 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 3 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 4 | Whereas , at the beginning of the nineteenth century , Ukrainian subjects of the Habsburg Empire were beginning to think of themselves as a distinct ethnic group , Ukrainian subjects of the tsar appeared not to do so . |
| 5 | I was beginning to think of myself as an athlete , though not a very serious one . |
| 6 | Take BIS Beecom International , founded in the mid-1970s by Paul McWilliams , a quietly spoken computer boffin ( ‘ I like to think of myself as a guru ’ ) . |
| 7 | As we have said before , we like to think of ourselves as a preservation society , rather than just a rail interest society , valuable as such societies are . |
| 8 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 9 | OFTEN I ‘ ve thought of myself as a state ; a country or , at the very least , a city . |
| 10 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 11 | He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest . |
| 12 | He had to start thinking of himself as a winner again . |
| 13 | At puberty I started thinking of myself as a hijra . |
| 14 | I do think of myself as a housewife . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's no good — I just ca n't seem to think of myself as a European yob ’ |
| 16 | Karl-Heinz Tesselmann liked to think of himself as a wanderer . |
| 17 | Then , as now , the Conservative Party in the 1950s liked to think of itself as a lonely beacon of responsibility in a moral wilderness of couldn't-care-less ‘ permissiveness ’ and selfish ‘ I 'm all right Jack ’ attitudes . |
| 18 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 19 | Up to that time , I do not believe that she had thought of herself as a candidate for the Leadership . |
| 20 | Mr Nicholas Ridley , who , as secretary of state for the environment , masterminded the privatisation , likes to think of himself as a scourge of high-minded meddlers and an advocate of consumer choice . |
| 21 | One dealer wrote on his client lead card : " Likes to think of himself as a professional . |
| 22 | Soon I shall start snarling at visitors and grubbing for nourishment in the fields , simply because I can not bear to think of myself in the same category as Betty , and she has laid claim to humanity . |
| 23 | ‘ I prefer to think of myself as an avenging angel , ’ he returned smoothly . |