Example sentences of "[to-vb] of it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons .
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 His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone .
4 It is tempting to think of it as a felt tendency , so that one is somehow aware of where the mind is going .
5 It 's more useful to think of it as a way of giving coherence and focus to the work of small groups .
6 The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry .
7 Although I know it 's a problem in the eyes of the public and the Health Service , I try not to think of it as a problem personally , y'know what I mean .
8 Every now and then Nora took such opportunities to remind Sarah of her fortune ; she tried not to think of it as a kind of hudsoning .
9 To follow a rule , e.g. the rule for use of the word ‘ pain ’ ( the rule embodied in the concept of pain ) , is not to check , as it were within oneself , on whether this new sensation resembles the original one and , if it does , to think of it as a pain .
10 Confronted with such vast heaps of material one had to think of it as a game .
11 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 ? "
12 It is tempting to think of it as a number cruncher , but as Symphony itself demonstrates , a spreadsheet is equally capable of manipulating text as numbers and dates .
13 Although it is more usual to think of it as a place of rest , a great deal of work is performed within the household .
14 I want you to think of it as the room where you do your writing .
15 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 .
16 It would be very wrong to think of it as an alternative ’ .
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