Example sentences of "[to-vb] of [pron] as the " in BNC.

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1 The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s .
2 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 .
3 we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans .
4 These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating .
5 It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer .
6 We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority .
7 I want you to think of it as the room where you do your writing .
8 But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook .
9 Do you know , when you were little , darling , I used to think of you as the family barometer .
10 Herakleides goes on to speak of them as the king 's ‘ fellow-diners ’ .
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