Example sentences of "[pron] see [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 3 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 5 | I see him as a servile little bugger ! |
| 6 | I thought he played well against England last week and I see him as a valuable member of our squad . ’ |
| 7 | On being asked by someone else whether she saw God as male or female , she replied ‘ Neither : I see him as an absolute supreme Being ! ’ . |
| 8 | I have a feeling its not too different from how Leeds play now , that s why I see him as an excellent ( joint ? ) |
| 9 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 10 | ‘ Now I see her as a potential suicide — the ultimate protest . |
| 11 | I see it as a personal thing . ’ |
| 12 | I myself have no inclinations towards mysticism whatsoever : I see it as a conscious attempt to transcend the exigencies of the material world , including poverty , in the interest or pursuit of some higher mode of consciousness . |
| 13 | I see it as a silly gesture springing from her work in advertising , the promotion of appearance over substance . |
| 14 | The sunlight is falling like a gentle rain and I see it as a silent , unpolluting fuel ; which when it reaches the ground bursts forth in leaves and flowers and is the strength which upholds the trees , and if it failed , all life would fail . |
| 15 | His view of contemporary comedy as a whole is equally oblique : ‘ I see it as a very , very long trench with a worm and a piece of hot bacon nearby . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , as things stand I see it as the only course for you to take … |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 18 | I see it as the ultimate gesture . ’ |
| 19 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 20 | The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies , which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute 's technical effort . |
| 21 | Blackburn has been associated with the New Left Review 's analysis of the Labour Party , which saw it as a Labourist trend in politics with no connection to socialism . |
| 22 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Or do you see him as an inconvenient remnant of outmoded superstition — a bit like a gallstone — of which we must all be purged before religion can take on its true form , that is , without him . ’ |
| 24 | Do you see it as a brave thing to do ? |
| 25 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 26 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 27 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 28 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 29 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 30 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |