Example sentences of "he [vb past] of [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talked of her as a goddess beyond reproach who was being restrained against her will . |
| 2 | Coffin and Gabriel ( it was surprising how quickly he thought of them as a couple ) . |
| 3 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 4 | Just because she used many more words , he thought of her as a thinking type . |
| 5 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 6 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 7 | She roused increasing desire in him ; he thought of her in the night , when his abstruse reflections on the day 's work were done . |
| 8 | He thought of himself as a latecomer . |
| 9 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 10 | He thought of himself as a bungler . |
| 11 | He thought of himself as a great collector — I believe there were great collections of Chinese porcelain made by Victorian and Edwardian connoisseurs , but he was pretty small fry , just being fashionable . " |
| 12 | He thought of himself as a responsible and dependable person . |
| 13 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 14 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 15 | He spoke of himself as a hapless , hopeless , helpless male , seven years in thrall to an unknowing , uncaring , unattainable She . |
| 16 | His recent history — which sounded as remote when he spoke of it as a previous incarnation — had enacted a traditional surfing scenario he was n't particularly proud of . |
| 17 | More frequently , however , he spoke of it as a means to modernize the Church so that unity might become possible . |
| 18 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |
| 19 | She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning . |