I know we've never been close, but I've always thought of you as a friend.

I have begun to think of you as a friend.

I would like you to think of me as a friend.

And I've come to think of you as a friend.

She wished he had thought of her as a friend.

She had even begun to think of him as a friend.

I've always thought of Dad as a good friend to the few he has.

He knew from personal experience how miserable it was to love someone who thought of you as only a friend.

I had taught myself to think of death as a friend.

How natural is it for a horse to think of wolf as a friend?