Example sentences of "[to-vb] of [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might actually find it impossible to conceive of themselves without the slaves or serfs who defined their status . |
| 2 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 3 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 4 | if other members have material on similar themes , the Social Secretary will be pleased to hear of them with a view to their incorporation in a future programme . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Okay so does everyone , think they 'll gon na be able to think of something over the weekend ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You are now a ‘ man ’ or a ‘ woman ’ , rather than still being able to think of yourself as a child . |
| 9 | do not be afraid to think of yourself as a leader , |
| 10 | I want you to think of yourself as the driver of the car and to concentrate on the kinds of things you are normally aware of when you are driving . |
| 11 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |
| 12 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He is the last person to be entitled to think of himself as a protector of jobs ; he is the destroyer of jobs . |
| 15 | One dealer wrote on his client lead card : " Likes to think of himself as a professional . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Karl-Heinz Tesselmann liked to think of himself as a wanderer . |
| 18 | I think the first point to make is erm that schools , and particularly community colleges , are now very complicated places , and it would be quite wrong for a head of an establishment like that to think of himself as an academic in an ivory tower , because if he did erm the organisation would become entangled , the money would run out , and in fact he would n't have the kind of institution he wants . |
| 19 | He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest . |
| 20 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |
| 21 | The public were urged to think of him as a man whose ‘ gibes and sneers in Nazi propaganda broadcasts against Britain during the war disgusted the British people . ’ |
| 22 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |
| 23 | Hard to think of him as a boy . |
| 24 | Alex was a prickly person , an unbalanced person , sometimes an infuriating person , but Charles did n't want to think of him as a murderer . |
| 25 | Rees-Mogg went about his business conscientiously and with a good degree of enthusiasm , and while it is hard to think of him as a representative of the common man , sheer assiduousness probably bridged the gulf between the housing estates of suburbia and the Old Rectory , Hinton Blewitt . |
| 26 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 27 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 28 | I was beginning to think of myself as an athlete , though not a very serious one . |
| 29 | I would like you to think of me as a friend . |
| 30 | Fabia declared , stoutly , it somehow not sitting very well at all that he seemed to think of her as a child . |