Example sentences of "think of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either book could be considered the masterpiece of someone whom I think of as among the most gifted authors now at work in England . |
| 2 | I think of him as an artist who writes history , and I take it that the history he writes includes the history he has principally suffered — that of Poland . |
| 3 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 4 | Announce yourself clearly and think of what you intend to do . |
| 5 | Think of a piece of paper , I tell her . |
| 6 | It might have won , I said , and you know what you think of prizes . |
| 7 | Impossible if you think of painting as image of piece of world . |
| 8 | But if you think of it as model of whole world , as great cathedrals were said to be , or physicists ' models today ? |
| 9 | You think of yourself as a realist but you 're really full of this romantic bullshit about the moon . |
| 10 | Think of that corner of the glass . |
| 11 | I think of it more as a diving into still water . |
| 12 | Think of poor Magnus . ’ |
| 13 | You can tell us what they think of Il Duce . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Now , tell me what you think of Haile Selassie … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Now you really must tell us what you think of the Abyssinian question , Mr Tyler , ’ Brenda Waters said as soon as Edith had withdrawn . |
| 16 | I think of it more as a novelist might think of a bookshop . |
| 17 | See what you think of Harwich in the meantime . ’ |
| 18 | By the way , while I think of it , Anne was just about to leave the country when you rang , but she says when she gets back in September you 're to give her a call . ’ |
| 19 | Think of a pint of beer , or two glasses of wine , as the maximum for one day , rather than the minimum . |
| 20 | But it does n't have to be exercise with a capital E. Think of it more as activity . |
| 21 | A young lad had called out , ‘ See what the beasts think of the Act ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Think of it — if Flemyng sacks you , you can get a job as a preacher . ’ |
| 23 | Think of it with the garden cleared and new fruit-trees put in — ‘ They would never take up here . |
| 24 | Think of these last few days . |
| 25 | ‘ Or are you going to tell me what you think of my hair ? |
| 26 | ‘ You must tell me what you think of the terrine . |
| 27 | But if we think of the conscious subject as located within , or identical to , the brain , then external relations are beyond his gaze . |
| 28 | I think of eating an omelette or walking by the sea and these thoughts have a determinate ‘ qualitative ’ or ‘ phenomenal ’ content . |
| 29 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 30 | If they think of history , it may be hard not to see it in dressing-up terms from telly watching . |