Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we would expect potential partners to be sympathetic , because surely healthy and sustainable stocks are to the advantage of everyone with a long-term interest in Namibia 's fisheries . ’ |
| 2 | She turned her from pink to soft blue and grey-green and gold , to the satisfaction of everyone with an eye for colour . |
| 3 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 4 | I would like you to think of me as a friend . |
| 5 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 6 | ‘ She says she can think of me as a husband seven years after Troy 's disappearance . ’ |
| 7 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 8 | He does n't even think of me as a woman . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Because you still think of me as a child who needs your psychoanalysis ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |
| 12 | Well , I do n't actually know if he 's proud of my work , but he 's certainly proud of me as a person if that makes any sense . ’ |
| 13 | When he did n't reply she added , ‘ If I say yes you 'll think it confirms your view of me as a fortune-hunter . |
| 14 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 15 | Also , I often feel I gain from venomously critical views of me as an artist , more than from dithery , sloppily fawning , supportive views . ’ |
| 16 | At home it was a simple matter for me to parade my learning in front of my sisters , stressing my more advanced academic achievements at every possible opportunity , and remaining quite oblivious to their assessment of me as an insufferable little prig . |
| 17 | You — you took advantage of me at a moment of weakness . ’ |
| 18 | However most walkers were enjoying the view of me with a glove covered in steaming soup and a face streaming with tears . |
| 19 | After reversing one move his feet slipped , followed rapidly by his hands , and a moment later he landed on top of me with a crash of flailing limbs and a clatter of runners . |
| 20 | The part of me which made the mistake with the buck , letting it get the better of me for a moment , might still be around if that acid test had n't found it out . |
| 21 | In one small street — later to be identified as Keyworth Street — I saw what seemed to be a fight ahead of me outside a shop . |
| 22 | The road became narrower and ran ahead of me like a twisting silver elver . |
| 23 | Think of me like a ladybird ! |
| 24 | ‘ As I came to a junction , a car pulled out in front of me from a road on the left . |
| 25 | You 'll be able to see all of me in a moment . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 27 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
| 28 | In an instant his fine offering consisted of nothing but a tangle of leaves and twigs and the pale unlovely innards of dead blossoms . |
| 29 | One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned . |
| 30 | IN TWO separate investigations , astronomers have found evidence that encounters between two galaxies can turn one of them into a quasar . |