Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , previous readers would have grasped the play in Freeman 's terms , in so far as they validly comprehended it , but they would not have been aware of so doing , meantime foolishly talking of it in irrelevant , non-explanatory , " folk " ways . |
| 2 | Just think of it as bad luck . ’ |
| 3 | No one could ever take that away from her , and she would always think of him with special affection . |
| 4 | You must always think of him in those terms , to get the flavour of Calvinistic humbug that ruled his life , and therefore everyone around him . ’ |
| 5 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 6 | Now this is not strictly a soul food recipe , but since Philadelphia is my home town and my family has eaten its way through tons of this , I always think of it as northern soul food . |
| 7 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 8 | I never really thought of it like that . |
| 9 | Everybody 's completely different and there 's such a tendency not to study people really and to simply think of them as all exactly the same , ‘ You 're 75 and you 're old and you 've got to put up with that . |
| 10 | It seemed dreadful that I did n't know whether I loved him or not , that I had never even thought of it in those terms . |
| 11 | In J. Milroy and L. Milroy ( 1977 ) , we justified this method , somewhat retrospectively , in terms of the social network model ( the fieldworker can be described as a second-order network contact ) , and it is useful methodologically to think of it in this way ( indeed , many other investigators have successfully used the idea of social network as an explicit part of their fieldwork strategy ) . |
| 12 | Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues . |
| 13 | Never heard of him after that did you I mean ? |
| 14 | She had never heard of it in all her time in the house . |
| 15 | I 've never thought of her in any other way and never will ; she may look like you , physically , but inside you 're as different as you can possibly be . |
| 16 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 17 | ‘ I had never thought of him like that before . ’ |
| 18 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose you could say that , but I had never thought of it in those terms . |
| 20 | Aye you never heard of him after that . |
| 21 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I never thought of it like that , ’ said the imp . |
| 23 | Malthus assumed that the ‘ passion between the sexes ’ was constant ; modern demographers seldom think of it at all in academic terms , leaving it to medicine and biology ( Austin and Short 1980 , Parkes 1976 ) . |
| 24 | I never think of it like that . |