Example sentences of "i [vb base] of [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear of them from customers , and girls from school … . ’ |
| 2 | This is a specimen of our dressing rooms , but not by far the worst , as I know of one in the North of England where a corner of the floor is submerged in filth and water . |
| 3 | One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned . |
| 4 | Erm I think that those are erm er disadvantages with which any er possible location in Harrogate er District would start and I do n't think the assessment in Mr 's paper er accurately reflects either the criterion in the structure plan er in terms of assimilation , or indeed the nature of the landscape erm and what I know of it in the Harrogate District . |
| 5 | All I ask of you at present is to act the part of a true friend , by preparing my poor father very gently for this sad news … |
| 6 | All I ask of you in this , as in any other area , is that you keep an open mind . |
| 7 | I think of myself as a pretty good businesswoman now . |
| 8 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 9 | I think of myself as a boy . |
| 10 | ‘ I think of myself as a social worker ’ , he says , in the first of a new series of Inside Story : Immoral Earnings ( BBC1 , 9.30pm ) . |
| 11 | Then I think of nothing but the sky . |
| 12 | That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’ |
| 13 | However , when I think of him at the Departments of the Environment and of Education and Science , I realise that it probably was his finest hour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 16 | ( I think of him in some tropical Valhalla , rejoined with Arsenio . |
| 17 | But looking back I think of them as compensation for the rest of me life before , and what 's to come … |
| 18 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 19 | I think of you as my father , of course , when it comes to Christmas presents and topping up my grant , but I 'm not sure you 've got a blood right to lecture me . ’ |
| 20 | I think of you as a bicyclist ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ In fact , ’ I said loudly , ‘ if you really want to know , I think of you as a very attractive man . ’ |
| 22 | I think of you as a special customer . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 24 | I think of you in the middle of all that black water , and I wish that you could be here with me . |
| 25 | I think of it with loathing and dread ; have visions of designing the no-need-to-clear-mask and then return to reality . |
| 26 | ‘ I think of it as a stuffy old family that wants to celebrate the birthday of an aged aunt . |
| 27 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |
| 28 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 29 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 30 | I think of it as a sort of leak in my brain , like a slow puncture . |