Example sentences of "[pers pn] see as " in BNC.

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1 All those who were kind enough to offer me hospitality wanted me to see as much as possible in the time when I was not teaching .
2 We lost a man whom I had seen come to Christ , who was very gifted in personal evangelism , whom I saw as vital to the work and as a personal friend .
3 I have n't seen her since I left Plumford , and I saw as little as possible of her before that . ’
4 To avoid this happening to me , I am being careful to describe what I saw as exactly and carefully as possible .
5 Bohor reedbuck abounded on these uplands , generally in groups of four to seven ; once I saw as many as eighty scattered over a hillside .
6 Things like revenge , which you talk about as almost an Old Testament feeling , I see as completely now .
7 The rewards of happiness and contentment and security , I see as mostly drawn out of a routine of things .
8 I 'll be working in my own way — the same sort of thing , but what I see as rather more — serious . "
9 I see as particularly critical :
10 What do you see as ‘ different ’ about a priest ?
11 For example , you begin to ask yourself what would you see as important to accomplish in the next six months , the next 12 months and maybe the next couple of years .
12 Next year , what do you think will have changed ; not what you hope will have changed , but what do you see as practical ?
13 It is quite breathtaking , for instance , that her sympathies are so strong for another girl whom she sees as literally killing herself with exercise , yet she does n't really extend her sympathies or concern towards herself .
14 Since a Prime Minister without a majority in the Commons is an impossibility , he or she is seen as in a position to make any law he or she sees as fit .
15 Asked for her reaction , Margaret Thatcher gave vent to her feelings about the operation and also , I suspect , about what she saw as ever critical broadcasters who always found something to carp about even after an undoubted success .
16 Lynne Segal 's previous Virago book Is the Future Female ? was a spirited discussion of the nature and function of ‘ femininities ’ , especially in recent decades ; published in 1987 , at the most politically depressing period of Thatcherism when the socialist-feminist vision seemed a distant memory or hopeless pipedream , Segal defended her optimism about women 's astonishing progress since the 1960s , and about the fracturing of gender identities which she saw as irreversible .
17 In a visit in the spring of 1987 , I met a teacher who confided that the externally-imposed testing system pre-empted the use of 30% of her total professional time , and that her own independent judgements ( which she saw as more valuable and inseparable from her natural teaching style ) occupied a further 20–25% of the time .
18 It 's what my friend working in prostitution meant when she said she lost her self-respect when her husband was attracted to her colleague whom she saw as inferior to herself .
19 She was intolerant and contemptuous of the majority of the human race , whom she saw as wasteful , deluded , and politically ignorant .
20 One more summer term to winter still the house had not looked upon anyone she saw as suitable enough to take on a satisfactory residence within her proud walls , if only she was .
21 You see as great as her spirit is , she ca n't bear that .
22 Throughout the week you come upon games which you see as vital and by the end of the week you have had so many vital games that you have forgotten some of them but one which definitely stood out was the fourball between Howard Clark and Mark James and Curtis Strange and Payne Stewart .
23 Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn .
24 Accordingly , the content we saw as essential to knowledge about language was incorporated in the three profile components , speaking and listening , reading , and writing , both in the statements of attainment and in the programmes of study .
25 we saw as probably being fairly strong in the corporate finance field .
26 The programme is intended to ensure that people can make profit out of public service rather than to achieve the goals that we see as important for ourselves .
27 Lord Mayor , we 've always been opposed to Trusts because of their independent nature which we see as really making it impossible because of that very nature to plan for health care properly .
28 We see as much as possible of both Richard and Roger , but the distance from our friends is the only real disadvantage of having retired to Oban .
29 And Charlie , believing none of it and letting her see as much , slid down from the makeup table and went over to the door .
30 From there they began formulating plans to take what they saw as rightly theirs , without waiting for their father 's demise .
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