Example sentences of "[to-vb] of [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You are now a ‘ man ’ or a ‘ woman ’ , rather than still being able to think of yourself as a child . |
| 5 | do not be afraid to think of yourself as a leader , |
| 6 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He is the last person to be entitled to think of himself as a protector of jobs ; he is the destroyer of jobs . |
| 9 | One dealer wrote on his client lead card : " Likes to think of himself as a professional . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Karl-Heinz Tesselmann liked to think of himself as a wanderer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hard to think of him as a boy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 20 | I was beginning to think of myself as an athlete , though not a very serious one . |
| 21 | I would like you to think of me as a friend . |
| 22 | Fabia declared , stoutly , it somehow not sitting very well at all that he seemed to think of her as a child . |
| 23 | He had never asked about the child , partly from a kind of delicacy but mainly because he preferred not to think of her as a mother , and she had volunteered no information about Timmy or his father . |
| 24 | Naturally , this did not please Laura who thought the designer status was a disadvantage ‘ because people are n't so likely to think of us as a neighbourhood store ; that 's what we want to be . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's too young to understand , ’ was often the reply , but I did n't want her to think of herself as an object of attention . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is tempting to think of it as a felt tendency , so that one is somehow aware of where the mind is going . |
| 28 | It 's more useful to think of it as a way of giving coherence and focus to the work of small groups . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |