Example sentences of "he [verb] of as " in BNC.
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1 | He made no secret of what he thought of as the poverty of American culture . |
2 | He passed the gun up to Louis , the tallest of the Latinos , the one he thought of as their leader . |
3 | So were his long trousers , his formal shirts , and what he thought of as his work-clothes : camouflage trousers and combat jackets . |
4 | He 's punishing her for her beauty and what he thought of as her wickedness . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Loughton was the place he thought of as the station at which to de-train and seek food . |
8 | What he thought of as the sky was the horizon , usually broken by trees and hedges . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | His lazy , almost relaxed tone of voice did not disguise his fierce determination to find out what he thought of as the truth . |
15 | The man he thought of as his oldest friend ! |
16 | 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 . |