Example sentences of "[verb] of [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might actually find it impossible to conceive of themselves without the slaves or serfs who defined their status . |
| 2 | On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 5 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 6 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |
| 7 | Books and catalogues may contain criticism ; but their writers may think of themselves as art historians , philosophers , aestheticians , anthropologists , historians or biographers , and there are many other possibilities ; their books may never be identified as art criticism . |
| 8 | For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert . |
| 9 | The trainer also has the responsibility to convey to the trainees that they must not think of themselves as problem solvers , but only as facilitators . |
| 10 | Clearly , this standardised approach to search and retrieval is a major publishing limitation , all the more significant because Sony do not think of themselves as publishers and are seeking third parties to support their platform . |
| 11 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 12 | ‘ And in the back row , Tim Rodber and Ben Clarke can justifiably think of themselves as England candidates . ’ |
| 13 | Did you think of yourself as a classical actor in those days ? |
| 14 | Do you think of yourself as more of a rhythm guitarist than a lead player ? |
| 15 | ( How far do you really think of yourself as a housewife ? ) |
| 16 | When a respondent , in reply to the ‘ who am I ? ’ question of the Twenty Statements Test writes ‘ I am a man ’ , ‘ I am a student ’ … it is reasonable to believe that we have far more solid knowledge of the attitudes which organize and direct his behaviour than if , on a checklist and among other questions , we had asked ‘ do you think of yourself as a man ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do you think of yourself as a student ? ’ |
| 18 | Do you think of yourself as a latent graffiti artist ? |
| 19 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 20 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 21 | I do think of myself as a housewife . |
| 22 | I do n't really think of myself as a mother . |
| 23 | ‘ You mean , I can think of myself as that ? ’ she asked , trembling . |
| 24 | I did not think of myself as a racist but my experience of working in Ghana was making me irritable and critical , the first step on the way to making racist judgments . |
| 25 | I did n't think of myself as one of them , then ; now I do n't see I should have left myself out . |
| 26 | I do n't think of myself like that . |
| 27 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 28 | Did Lucy think of herself as that heterosexually convenient phenomenon , the ‘ non-orgasmic woman ’ ; had sex been awful for her ? |
| 29 | We do rather think of ourselves in this area as ‘ Medaus out in the sticks ’ , being a long way from the hub , so to speak . |
| 30 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |