Example sentences of "he [verb] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joyce went across to speak to the police officer on the man 's behalf and , as he did so , was jostled by a heckler whom he disposed of with ‘ a tap on the head ’ . |
| 2 | He made no secret of what he thought of as the poverty of American culture . |
| 3 | He passed the gun up to Louis , the tallest of the Latinos , the one he thought of as their leader . |
| 4 | So were his long trousers , his formal shirts , and what he thought of as his work-clothes : camouflage trousers and combat jackets . |
| 5 | He 's punishing her for her beauty and what he thought of as her wickedness . ’ |
| 6 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 7 | Freud was so impressed by the amount of brutality men have inflicted on one another , and have continued to inflict on one another , that he felt justified in developing what he thought of as a mythology of two conflicting instincts : sexuality and death , Eros and Thanatos . |
| 8 | Loughton was the place he thought of as the station at which to de-train and seek food . |
| 9 | What he thought of as the sky was the horizon , usually broken by trees and hedges . |
| 10 | By the time Tennyson revisited Cauterets , in 1861 , what he thought of as a village he now found to be , in his less poetic moods , ‘ an odious watering-place ’ , and that is a transition you can readily enough trace in the architecture today . |
| 11 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 12 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 13 | It struck Dexter as a very sensual act , at odds with what he thought of as the female detective 's self-control and cautious approach to the world . |
| 14 | The great graben of the Vale of Severn and the Cheshire Basin may he thought of as an early ( prenationalist ) attempt at separating Wales from England . |
| 15 | His lazy , almost relaxed tone of voice did not disguise his fierce determination to find out what he thought of as the truth . |
| 16 | The man he thought of as his oldest friend ! |
| 17 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal candidate , said he knew of at least four houses where it had happened including the party 's own offices in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 18 | I accept the level of attainance of which he spoke as being likely in the case of the plaintiff 's career and I accept the sums which he spoke of as her potential earnings . |
| 19 | What Alexei did n't tell Sylvie about , what he spoke of to no one , was that last year he had spent with his father . |
| 20 | ‘ The white heat of the scientific revolution ’ , which he spoke of in his Scarborough speech of 1963 , caught and mobilised the spirit of those times . |
| 21 | He knows of at least one competitor who is prepared to accept this price . |
| 22 | Steve Royle , the rowing director , says the new centre has improved the quality of their training and it is the only one he knows of in the country . |