Example sentences of "[noun] think [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did Lucy think of herself as that heterosexually convenient phenomenon , the ‘ non-orgasmic woman ’ ; had sex been awful for her ? |
| 2 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |
| 3 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , Frome , it gives me a great deal of pleasure to think of you as head boy here next year . |
| 5 | Of course it is right for people in the north-east to think of themselves as north-easterners . |
| 6 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 7 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 8 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 9 | But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally . |
| 10 | In a queer way , though Marjorie was so kind , Emmie thought of her as an enemy . |
| 11 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 12 | Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face . |
| 13 | — The days pass , Amadou thinks of nothing but his glittering starfish , of pleasing her , of taking care of her . |
| 14 | Lydia thought about it for a while , before she spoke . |
| 15 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |
| 16 | I think it 's , it really begins in the home , this , because mothers can do quite a lot in not educating their own sons to think of them as servants . |
| 17 | I think — it really begins in the home this because it 's — mothers can do quite a lot in not educating their own sons to think of them as servants . |
| 18 | It 's easy when you become attached to birds to think of them in human terms , particularly if you give them a human name . |
| 19 | That field is sport , where the East Germans think of themselves as a ‘ world power ’ , second only to the Soviet Union and the US . |
| 20 | Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . |
| 21 | MIND OVER MATTER : A hijra thinks of herself as a woman |
| 22 | ‘ It would n't actually trouble me if men thought about me in that way . |
| 23 | Before 1861 the state had left most rural tasks to the gentry , but nobles who had been deprived of their serfs had no reason to think of themselves as agents of the government . |
| 24 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 25 | The fact that in 1992 only 37 per cent of voters think of themselves as Labour supporters but that on Thursday only 35 per cent actually voted Labour indicates that the party was scarcely able to poll its ‘ core ’ strength . |
| 26 | I paint the words and leave others to think about them in their own hearts . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | " He may have made it , but Fiver thought of it for us , " answered Hazel . |
| 29 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |
| 30 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |