Example sentences of "[vb past] seen [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 2 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 3 | Whereas the late nineteenth-century organizations had seen themselves as combating indiscipline , irreligion , immorality , and social neglect of their members , the Scout movement looked to encourage certain positive values necessary for national and imperial security . |
| 4 | Before this YWAM had seen themselves solely as a youth evangelistic organisation that was an outreach arm of existing churches . |
| 5 | In resisting Home Rule and arguing for tariffs , Unionists had seen themselves as acting in the interests of nation and empire against a government that had the interests of neither at heart . |
| 6 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 7 | In the car he had seen himself in words on a page , a helpless being pinioned by letters , manipulated by a creative intelligence that seemed set upon punishment and pain rather than any grace or redemption . |
| 8 | He had seen himself as a man with everything to lose , opposed by the Sinn Feiners who had nothing to lose . |
| 9 | Beside him , against the wall , he had placed those things he had seen himself use in the dream — a blanket and his old porcelain water-bottle . |
| 10 | Up until that moment I had seen myself as simply a person ; colour of skin had n't registered with me . |
| 11 | And , finally , a party which had seen itself as being part of a process of international socialist revolution , linked with the Russian revolution of nineteen seventeen , becomes a party which is primarily a party of Chinese nationalism . |
| 12 | For a brief moment , she had seen herself raising the tiny silver gun and pulling the trigger , once and then again , the blood appearing like a diseased flower on Lewis 's soiled shirt . |
| 13 | Melanie would be a nymph crowned with daisies once again ; he saw her as once she had seen herself . |
| 14 | Up until yesterday , when the whole thing had taken shape and he had whisked her away to Rocamar , she had simply been his confidante — at least , that was how she had seen herself , and she 'd assumed that was how he saw her too . |