Example sentences of "to see [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 2 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mosley came increasingly to see himself as the spokesman of the war generation , who refused to compromise his idealistic principles with the political realities of the post-war world . |
| 5 | Defoe , who travelled more of the roads of the country than most of his contemporaries , was inclined to see himself in the foothills of a better transport age — the equal of the fabled Roman achievement . |
| 6 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 8 | Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others . |
| 9 | Sarah asked the nanny , standing on tip-toe to see herself in the gilt-framed mirror in the hall . |
| 10 | Not only is it necessary to perceive an entire picture of yourself , but it is also necessary to see yourself in the context of your natural surroundings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 14 | In short , they should establish the kind of position in which they would wish to see themselves at the end of that period . |
| 15 | Muslim nationalists were encouraged to see themselves as the spearhead of the anti-colonial movement , and Lenin himself addressed their congress ( in November 1919 ) . |
| 16 | In these concrete examples , here at last was literacy that enabled the poor to see themselves as the makers of their own history , with the power to change their world . |
| 17 | It was then the turn of the Americans to see themselves as the party whose imperative task it was to rescue a friend from the consequences of her own folly . |