Example sentences of "see himself [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider .
2 Beside him , against the wall , he had placed those things he had seen himself use in the dream — a blanket and his old porcelain water-bottle .
3 The legionnaire sees himself caught in a never-ending cycle of darkness and despair , until the day when he will be liberated through atonement of his past crimes .
4 In this vision — a kind of ‘ flash-forward ’ in fantasy — Jesus sees himself married to the Magdalene ( for whom he has lusted all through the book ) and fathering a family upon her .
5 That is how he may see himself operating as Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor , but it is not how this Government 's Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor operate .
6 Okay , so his grant will be pegged at its 1990 level ; but he ca n't see himself borrowing from the loan scheme introduced by the Government through the major banks .
7 He could not see himself chained to these realities for the next 40 or 50 years .
8 There was no objective standard for him to measure himself by — there never is in this kind of case , either you have the confidence in yourself , or you don't-all he could do was see himself reflected in her eyes , and it was not a pleasing portrait .
9 Now he saw himself step into the picture , and something he was doing or saying made the men and women before him jump from their seats , even Lionel .
10 He saw himself returning as a beggar with limbs deliberately deformed , whining for alms on the sea-front at Bombay .
11 The Shah saw himself surrounded by enemies .
12 And he saw himself left with a ridiculous , dead feeling , and — a half-drugged , frightened , tearful , disgusted young girl .
13 In the first premonition , Mr Reynolds saw himself standing on the footplate of No 43106 leaving Bridgnorth , smoke-box first , with some covered wagons heading for Bewdley .
14 Very clearly he saw himself standing in the BBC Club with Sherlock Forster and hearing the name of Marius Steen , the name that had come to dominate his life .
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