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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] of [pn reflx] as " in BNC.

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1	The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers .
2	I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by .
3	I think of myself as a pretty good businesswoman now .
4	I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage .
5	I think of myself as a boy .
6	‘ I think of myself as a social worker ’ , he says , in the first of a new series of Inside Story : Immoral Earnings ( BBC1 , 9.30pm ) .
7	A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China .
8	Did you think of yourself as a classical actor in those days ?
9	Do you think of yourself as more of a rhythm guitarist than a lead player ?
10	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 ? ’
11	‘ Do you think of yourself as a student ? ’
12	Do you think of yourself as a latent graffiti artist ?
13	She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed .
14	You think of yourself as a realist but you 're really full of this romantic bullshit about the moon .
15	It 's so much more fun being a ‘ winner ’ than a ‘ loser ’ and if you think of yourself as a born loser , you 're wrong !
16	‘ That implies you think of yourself as a poor sap — and that , Feargal McMahon , you will never get me to believe !
17	PEOPLE who think of themselves as ‘ European ’ may be fascinated , or at least enlightened , by ‘ The Celts ’ a new exhibition that runs until December at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice .
18	This moral challenge often comes hardest to those who think of themselves as environmentalists in particular .
19	‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility .
20	I want you to think of yourself as the driver of the car and to concentrate on the kinds of things you are normally aware of when you are driving .
21	Yet whether we think of ourselves as secularist or as religious , we can not be absolutely certain in such a way that our certainty can not be challenged by other people .
22	Psychological alienation provides Such with a narrative pretext for bringing the theories of post-Einsteinian science to bear on the way we conceive of ourselves as individuals in relation to other people .
23	The villagers spoke French ; indeed , they thought of themselves as French citizens and consequently welcomed the helmeted Dragoons with cups of wine and offers of food .
24	The trouble is that people only start to read these magazines after they think of themselves as computer users — and the point they most need help is when they are deciding what to buy .
25	‘ She 's too young to understand , ’ was often the reply , but I did n't want her to think of herself as an object of attention .
26	Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern .
27	Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern .
28	So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being .
29	He thought of himself as a latecomer .
30	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 .