Example sentences of "saw [pron] [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He said if I thought he was going to be the Hindu Salman Rushdie , I was mistaken : he saw himself more as a Hindu P. G. Wodehouse . |
2 | She closed her tired , bloodshot eyes and saw herself again as a young woman , buxom and pregnant , set down in wild bush country , her only asset a husband as young and as strong as herself . |
3 | He saw him now as a possible Archbishop of Canterbury . |
4 | He was a hero to the people who saw him only as a little waif , when actually he was a pudding of hatred . ’ |
5 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
6 | He saw it now as a crowding darkness of giant shapes against the merlons of the curtain wall , dominated by the eyeletted walls of the tall hexagonal keep . |