Example sentences of "saw [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a shadow of doubt Steven Morrissey always saw himself in that light . |
| 2 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 3 | Peter , unable to bear such a pedestrian first appointment ( he saw himself in those days as a fervent worker priest ) , chafed almost from their arrival . |
| 4 | On my way back downstairs I saw you in one of the bedrooms with Melanie . ’ |
| 5 | But I have loved you ever since I first saw you in this house . |
| 6 | I saw something in that hall tonight which I have kept secret . |
| 7 | ‘ And I shall need a bigger wardrobe ; I think I saw one in that other bedroom . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , cos we saw one in that |
| 9 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 10 | Dear Willis — As I am informed by those who ought to know that you have " taken the ground " somewhere near London River , I expect you can tell me the whereabouts of the dear old Fortuna , built 1892 , rigged when I last saw her in 1920 as a square foresail brigantine . |
| 11 | What on earth would she think if she saw her in this ridiculous get-up ? |
| 12 | But true to form , the new season saw him in familiar mood , darting into dangerous positions and scoring with ease as relegated West Ham tried to regain their aristocratic status . |
| 13 | She saw him in all his beauty , grace and arrogance — physically the most nearly perfect human being she had ever seen . |
| 14 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 15 | This was certainly how Keynes saw it in one of his last memoranda , in February 1946 . |
| 16 | I saw it in one of the papers , but did nt see it on the day . |
| 17 | To Selborne it was no more nor less than " robbing the church " and many Unionists saw it in such simple terms . |
| 18 | We both altered so much that when we went back to Middleton , Dave Fielding saw it in both of us , ’ she says . |
| 19 | One saw it in extreme form in the 1960s , with Alan Sharp and Archie Hind , and in a quiet way with William McIlvanney . |
| 20 | When the new owners who proposed to convert the barn first saw it in 1978 , the whole structure had been used for stabling horses , and accordingly , brick partitions had been erected to form stalls inside . |
| 21 | A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’ |
| 22 | Kahnweiler throughout his life was to maintain that the painting was unfinished , and on occasion was even to assert that Picasso himself saw it in this way . |
| 23 | well I 've never got any , I saw it in this shop |
| 24 | ‘ Go on , saw us in half then , ’ I said recklessly as the young man came nearer . |