Example sentences of "[vb past] of [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 2 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 3 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 4 | Until I was seventeen , only occasionally and briefly meeting him , I thought of him as the rather alarming head of the family . |
| 5 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 6 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 7 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 8 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 9 | The Yorkshire Evening News spoke of him as the man whose motto was ‘ keep smiling ’ . |
| 10 | A leafy bushy plant , much branched , Culpeper in the 17th century wrote of it as the " herb which all authors are together by the ears about , and rail at one another like lawyers " . |