Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] of it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook . |
| 2 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
| 3 | On the question of religion , the Buddhist tends to think of it as a raft with which to cross the tempestuous seas of existence , and the Buddha once asked , " What would you say to someone who carried his raft around with him when he had arrived ? " |
| 4 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |
| 5 | You know , if you ca n't sell it at home , you know , you get rid of it on the world market . |
| 6 | If a collector had acquired the ancient cross , Wartski 's experts might have heard of it through the dealers ' grapevine . |
| 7 | In fact , he could n't remember ever having heard of it until the day Shiva came in and told them what he had found . |
| 8 | If you try to think of it as a closed totality you get into the problems of historicism ; if you try to think of it as entirely differentiated , then it becomes meaningless since there is no necessary connection , positive or negative , to anything else , nor would any one history produce any effect on another . |
| 9 | It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique . |
| 10 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 11 | She wondered , not for the first time , how it was that her body could be desperate for liquid at one end while bursting to get rid of it at the other . |
| 12 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 13 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 14 | Rather than calling this a paradox ( as others did ) the authors preferred to think of it as an indication of the incompleteness of quantum theory . |
| 15 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 16 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 17 | But they said to think of it as a big pat on the back |
| 18 | Confronted with such vast heaps of material one had to think of it as a game . |
| 19 | His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone . |
| 20 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 21 | Played in English on a steeply-rigged stage in a shabby hall , this revival packs a pulverising punch , the most gripping account I have experienced of it over the years . |