Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] of [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You let go of them on the Moon . |
| 2 | Boys who did not , remained in the elementary-school system ( in , as will appear , most cases ) to linger on like dispossessed giants until the system and my grandfather let go of them at the age of fourteen . |
| 3 | ‘ You seem to think of nothing but this James Dreme ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Given time , they begin to think of themselves as our equals . |
| 6 | ‘ And there are some boys who are just out to go as far as they can with a girl and get rid of her after a couple of days . |
| 7 | that it 's barely worth their while to erm to employ try and get rid of them by doing that er which er which means that there should n't be redistribution of land that much and therefore |
| 8 | You know , if you ca n't sell it at home , you know , you get rid of it on the world market . |
| 9 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 10 | We offered the Government time , saying , ’ Let us not waste each other 's time : let us abolish the poll tax now , and get rid of it by April 1992 . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 12 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 13 | Most women artists just like to think of themselves as artists and we 've never made a point of an artist being a woman . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 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 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | OFTEN I ‘ ve thought of myself as a state ; a country or , at the very least , a city . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | I try to think of them as people first . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He 's still alive and yet I keep thinking of him in the past tense . |
| 25 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 26 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 27 | In fact I tend to think of mine as ‘ the casting off carriage ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I was doubtful myself , ’ Maureen admitted , ‘ but I hate to think of you in that awful room . |
| 29 | I do think of myself as a housewife . |
| 30 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |