Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] to think of [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was doubtful myself , ’ Maureen admitted , ‘ but I hate to think of you in that awful room . |
| 2 | In fact I tend to think of mine as ‘ the casting off carriage ’ . |
| 3 | I have not met the one in possession of my estate , and maybe never will , but I like to think of him as a kindly , white-haired old gentleman with a twinkle in his eye and a bag of humbugs for passing children , a man who has seen the troubles of the world but who remains untainted . |
| 4 | Take BIS Beecom International , founded in the mid-1970s by Paul McWilliams , a quietly spoken computer boffin ( ‘ I like to think of myself as a guru ’ ) . |
| 5 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 6 | I try to think of them as people first . ’ |
| 7 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I prefer to think of myself as an avenging angel , ’ he returned smoothly . |
| 9 | ‘ You seem to think of nothing but this James Dreme ’ . |
| 10 | If you try to think of it as a closed totality you get into the problems of historicism ; if you try to think of it as entirely differentiated , then it becomes meaningless since there is no necessary connection , positive or negative , to anything else , nor would any one history produce any effect on another . |
| 11 | Furthermore , by learning to breathe properly , we begin to strengthen the aura ( see page 119 ) , or the body 's immune system if you prefer to think of it in more material terms . |
| 12 | That software will be DB2 with SQL capability ( or , if you prefer to think of it in other terms , SQL with an accessible DB2 engine ) . |
| 13 | ‘ You have to think of everything in this game , you know that . |
| 14 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 15 | As we have said before , we like to think of ourselves as a preservation society , rather than just a rail interest society , valuable as such societies are . |
| 16 | We like to think of it as extortion do n't we ? |
| 17 | We like to think of it in terms of the ancient Greek idea of ‘ diata ’ which means literally ‘ a way of living ’ . |
| 18 | After a time we come to think of them as old friends . ’ |
| 19 | But only lately have we come to think of it as one body , however large and interconnected it may be . |
| 20 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 21 | The next stage is when they begin to think of themselves as workers in Britain and compare their lives with those of other workers , black and white . |
| 22 | Given time , they begin to think of themselves as our equals . |