Example sentences of "[vb past] to see [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Literary critics began to see themselves in part as cultural historians responding to new processes advanced for the understanding of culture by anthropologists , themselves using interdisciplinary methods to describe cultural phenomena . |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |