Example sentences of "[vb past] of him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 2 | She felt as distant from Dada as on that faraway teatime when he had turned down Dora 's Dolls ' House in favour of his photograph album though now she thought of him with a gentle benevolence , the distance between them was changeless . |
| 3 | She thought of him as a drug-running tyrant . |
| 4 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 5 | For one thing , the Hebrews did not divide man up into spirit , mind and body as we tend to do : they thought of him as a single entity , an animated body , a living person . |
| 6 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 7 | She thought of him as an aging hippy . |
| 8 | His regiment 's chaplain spoke of him in the warmest terms as a man of the highest principles . |