Example sentences of "[to-vb] of [pers pn] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hard to think of him as a boy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I would like you to think of me as a friend . |
| 11 | Fabia declared , stoutly , it somehow not sitting very well at all that he seemed to think of her as a child . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is tempting to think of it as a felt tendency , so that one is somehow aware of where the mind is going . |
| 15 | It 's more useful to think of it as a way of giving coherence and focus to the work of small groups . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Confronted with such vast heaps of material one had to think of it as a game . |
| 21 | 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 ? " |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although it is more usual to think of it as a place of rest , a great deal of work is performed within the household . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's hard to think of you as a boy . ’ |