Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He disliked occidental empires and wished to see them ended as soon as practicable . |
| 2 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 3 | Isabel , watching closely , saw him go very still as he saw what lay between the pages . |
| 4 | I saw him depart as peacefully as a sleeping infant . |
| 5 | What he saw he painted as exactly as could be painted but he certainly knew when to catch each view in its most romantic moment . |
| 6 | It would n't have been , if they 'd had any furniture in when we , when we first got in I would n't have been surprised to see it painted round there as well . |