Example sentences of "he see [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 2 | How could he see it in the dark ? |
| 3 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 4 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 5 | All day he sees himself in the glass darkly |
| 6 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 7 | Economically , he sees it as the difference between the hare and the tortoise : the free market model with its exciting instability , its romantic success stories , its idealistic zeal ; the social market with its patient , unspectacular , benign growth , and its cultural cohesion . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 9 | It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity . |
| 10 | Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut . |
| 11 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 12 | He saw them to the door but when they rode past a minute later , it was already shut . |
| 13 | Doubtless they describe the hard life of the villager and the poverty of his surroundings as Crabbe saw them : but he was not a peasant , as Clare was , and he saw them from the outside as harsh , ugly and wretched . |
| 14 | No I know Chris told me cos he saw him on the morning at the garage then he . |
| 15 | We reached the Bedford Square House and he saw me up the steps . |
| 16 | He saw me up the steps and then bounded down them and drove away . |
| 17 | He saw me on the telly . ’ |
| 18 | He saw me on the television the other weekend . |
| 19 | My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness . |
| 20 | He saw her into the studio , checked that the heating was on , gave her a double whisky . |
| 21 | She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day . |
| 22 | As he saw her to the door , he felt in his pockets . |
| 23 | He paused when he saw her by the iron railings that separated mown lawn from pasture . |
| 24 | He saw her in the doorway , and said , ‘ What are you hanging around for ? ’ |
| 25 | Fran must have made some noise , some movement , some tiny betraying gesture , because he swung round , his face hardening when he saw her in the doorway . |
| 26 | He saw you from the window just now . ’ |
| 27 | It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act . |
| 28 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 29 | I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird . |