Example sentences of "to see [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world .
2 He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation .
3 It now regards £500m as the minimum necessary to see BSB through the promotional expenditure of a launch and the purchase of programmes .
4 To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions .
5 In 1893 America was ready to see Columbus as the great discoverer , the man who laid the foundations for a nation of bold entrepreneurs .
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