Example sentences of "[verb] to see [pn reflx] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |
| 2 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 3 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |
| 4 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 5 | In spite of their divided , defeated and reactionary Kultur , the Germans came to see themselves as people who needed no emancipation . |
| 6 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 7 | As a result , many undoubtedly experienced deep feelings of isolation and alienation , and came to see themselves as prophets in the wilderness or pilgrims journeying through hostile territory . |
| 8 | Begin to see yourself as someone with plenty of money to spare . |
| 9 | With the arrival of a child a woman tends to see herself as parent first and partner second . |
| 10 | THE British government tends to see itself as a bastion of common sense where European environmental policy is concerned , weighing benefits against costs which more dogmatic governments ignore . |
| 11 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 12 | He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great , brown eyes , Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer , leader of a gang of vagabonds . |
| 13 | Echoing the sentiments of Slam , Gypsy 's Graham Drinnon is keen to emphasise that the Limbo lot ‘ like to see ourselves as British musicians making British music , and certainly not as a Glasgow thing … |
| 14 | In gender terms this means that it is ‘ precisely when most compelled to see yourself as a woman or as a man , [ that ] you are confronted with the mystery of the other [ sex ] who faces you from across an impassable moral divide ’ ( p. 306 ) . |
| 15 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 17 | Muslim nationalists were encouraged to see themselves as the spearhead of the anti-colonial movement , and Lenin himself addressed their congress ( in November 1919 ) . |
| 18 | Good communications are encouraged by doing so , and each product line can be encouraged to see itself as a profit centre , a company within the company , making for commitment to that element of the company objectives . |
| 19 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 20 | There was no reason at all why these councils should have been regarded as above criticism , but in the context of that period when local government was under renewed attack from Thatcherism , the publication of sectarian , ill-researched articles in the magazine that likes to see itself as a broad-based forum of progressive ideas , was nothing less than destructive . |
| 21 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 22 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |
| 23 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |