Example sentences of "[not/n't] think [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 2 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 3 | The trainer also has the responsibility to convey to the trainees that they must not think of themselves as problem solvers , but only as facilitators . |
| 4 | Clearly , this standardised approach to search and retrieval is a major publishing limitation , all the more significant because Sony do not think of themselves as publishers and are seeking third parties to support their platform . |
| 5 | I did not think of myself as a racist but my experience of working in Ghana was making me irritable and critical , the first step on the way to making racist judgments . |
| 6 | ‘ Do not think of me as your adversary — he already exists on Earth . |
| 7 | But underneath you did not think of them as individuals . |
| 8 | They do not think of him as a sacrifice offered to God . |
| 9 | In looking back to his playing days , you can not think of him without Jim Shackleton . |
| 10 | The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome . |
| 11 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
| 12 | — or does not think of you at all . |
| 13 | If you can not think of anything to be angry about , you need help . |
| 14 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 15 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 16 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 17 | By all means enjoy an autumn romance but do not think of it as anything more than that . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You must not think of it like that , dear , ’ Stevie told her gently . |
| 19 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 20 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 21 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 22 | She had not thought of it till now . |
| 23 | Everybody 's been doing it , but they 've not thought about it as a design process and they have not usually brought people with design skills into the team to make these things happen better . |
| 24 | He had never asked about the child , partly from a kind of delicacy but mainly because he preferred not to think of her as a mother , and she had volunteered no information about Timmy or his father . |
| 25 | Then came the thought that Mrs Maybury had something vital to tell her , something which would help her to find Elaine — or Lilian ; it was difficult not to think of her as Elaine . |
| 26 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 27 | Although I know it 's a problem in the eyes of the public and the Health Service , I try not to think of it as a problem personally , y'know what I mean . |
| 28 | Every now and then Nora took such opportunities to remind Sarah of her fortune ; she tried not to think of it as a kind of hudsoning . |
| 29 | But mostly I try not to think about him at all . |
| 30 | She was always careful not to think about him during their estrangements but now , with him so near in time , there was a permissible pleasure in doing so . |