Example sentences of "thought [prep] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought about it as she said it . |
| 2 | I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden . |
| 3 | None thought of themselves as prudent — the word beloved of the philosophic writers — let alone prudes . |
| 4 | In Egypt , Lords Cromer and Milner , enthroned in marble halls and surrounded by British soldiers , thought of themselves as playing , with the utmost discretion , an exceptionally difficult lone hand ; they delighted in the formal restrictions placed on British power , though everyone in Egypt knew them to be of no practical consequence . |
| 5 | A loose Positivism , in the broad spirit of Comte 's Positive sociology and embracing all who thought of themselves as bringing the scientific revolution to the study of the social world , had been newly refined by the Logical Positivists . |
| 6 | Over a third said they hardly ever or never thought about their colour , and nearly half thought of themselves as neither black or white , but ‘ half and half ’ . |
| 7 | This was an irony at the time , because , as we shall see in Chapter 11 , the leading followers of Mendel in the early twentieth century thought of themselves as anti-Darwinian . |
| 8 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |
| 9 | He thought of himself as though he were an application form , for a job , a degree , a life , but when he thought of his mother , the adjective would not be expurgated , She was disappointed . |
| 10 | This is no exaggeration : though primarily a moralist , Arnold was almost equally a political reformer , and he thought of himself as performing a service to the state . |
| 11 | When Mountbatten flew off to India , he thought of himself as he had always thought of himself , as a leader of men . |
| 12 | Although Hutcheson thought of himself as defending the reality of moral distinctions , and the genuineness of a morally good benevolence which was not egoistically based , other thinkers were not happy with his treatment . |
| 13 | Neil , who never thought of himself as in any way a Galahad , or a knight errant in shining armour , saving virgins under attack , nevertheless felt compelled to investigate , particularly when the cry came again , more despairing than ever . |
| 14 | He thought of himself as insane , over-sensitive , brilliant and paranoid , and treated Alex as his soulmate . |
| 15 | ‘ At fourteen I thought of myself as having potential — the usual things : getting a boyfriend , going out with my friends — then after the loss of my leg , all that was shattered . |
| 16 | Jay realised she was flattered at being asked , realised that Lucy thought of her as somehow daringly on the wrong and the right side of the track all at the same time . |
| 17 | Yes ! she was beautiful but above all she was blessed and kind and sweet , and I never thought of her as beautiful . |
| 18 | She could not have been very old when I first knew her , but I thought of her as old , partly because her hair was pure white . |
| 19 | Aunt Ilsa was a large , loud woman of forbiddingly intense bonhomie ; I always thought of her as being the most remote outpost of the McHoan clan ( unless you counted the still purportedly peripatetic Uncle Rory ) ; a stout bulwark of a woman who for me at least — had always personified the dishevelled ramifications of our family . |
| 20 | She only remembers her mother when she was already grey-haired , but she still thought of her as beautiful , stately . |
| 21 | Colleagues and pupils thought of him as formidable ; a few found him frightening , a few found him affable . |
| 22 | There were five years between them , but she thought of him as older . |
| 23 | Sometimes Marcus thought of him as wearing glasses and sometimes he seemed to remember the man 's face naked . |
| 24 | Tyndall was a Professor at the Royal Institution , and an accomplished lecturer in that tradition , where arousing interest in a general audience was all-important , in contrast to academics training students , who thought of him as windy and superficial . |
| 25 | ‘ Though I was always aware of his political activities , I never thought of him as absent . |
| 26 | Scornful now of church sermons , he thought of them as black in comparison with the light emitted by pictures , and evoked the name of his preferred ‘ father ’ , Millet . |
| 27 | Dream cities , she thought of them as and wondered at them . |
| 28 | I still thought of them as indissoluble despite the picture of Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 29 | I thought of you as we capsized , Pippa , honest I did . |
| 30 | William Morris thought of it as being ‘ in the style of the thirteenth century ’ , but then it is also in the style of Philip Webb 's master , G.E . |