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Example sentences of "[vb past] see [pron] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 .
3	A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram .
4	It was not until Evelyn Underhill ( 1875–1941 ) and Dean Inge ( 1860–1954 ) began to consider mysticism seriously that Anglicans started to see it as a spirituality that was authentically Christian .
5	Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers .
6	And then , suddenly , I had to see him as a MAN — my husband !
7	She 'd rather he continued seeing her as a thief than that .
8	He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child .
9	He had seen himself as a man with everything to lose , opposed by the Sinn Feiners who had nothing to lose .
10	Well it was a system that er was n't liked but it was operated because , in my opinion anyway , because the employers er had seen it as a way of getting more work out of you .
11	Last summer was in Peter 's mind too , he had seen it as a failure , here he was going to put it right , he was enjoying the fear , he was Jamie dogfighting in the sky , he was very calm , very cold .
12	In his deliberations whether to sell or keep on the mill as a holiday home he had seen it as a refuge from London , eccentric and remote , providing a temporary escape from the demands of his job and the pressures of success .