Example sentences of "[pron] thought of [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until I was seventeen , only occasionally and briefly meeting him , I thought of him as the rather alarming head of the family . |
| 2 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 3 | For the rest of the evening , I thought of nothing but the stranger on the marshes . |
| 4 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 5 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 6 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 7 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 8 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 9 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 10 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 11 | She roused increasing desire in him ; he thought of her in the night , when his abstruse reflections on the day 's work were done . |