Example sentences of "see [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott does not see strata as consisting of individuals , nor does he see them simply as positions generated by the economic system , but rather as groups of inter-marrying and inter-connected families . |
| 2 | I can see them there as in a picture when , for the last time , arthritis having finally prevailed , they sat quietly together in the sun contemplating a magnificent crop of potatoes spread out to dry — the final gift of that bounteous old garden . |
| 3 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 4 | She sent him a message saying she would never see him again as long as she lived . |
| 5 | He did not see her precisely as she saw herself but it could have been very much worse . |
| 6 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |