Example sentences of "see him [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 2 | Leslie had an aunt in Durban , but by great misfortune disembarkation was on this occasion not allowed , and he did not meet the relative who had last seen him as a little boy in Scotland . |
| 3 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 4 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 5 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 6 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 7 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 8 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |
| 9 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 10 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 11 | Rory could see him through the open door as he crossed from the bungalow , through the yard of machinery and tractors , and into the business block . |
| 12 | I can see him through the open bar . |
| 13 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 14 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 15 | I did see him as a six year old child . |
| 16 | ‘ Or do you see him as an inconvenient remnant of outmoded superstition — a bit like a gallstone — of which we must all be purged before religion can take on its true form , that is , without him . ’ |
| 17 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 18 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 19 | I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion . |
| 20 | I said I did n't go out with married men and did n't see him in a romantic way . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 22 | One ca n't see him in an ambassadorial role at all can one ? |
| 23 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 24 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 25 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 26 | Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil . |
| 27 | When she had telephoned Robert about breakfast-time , asking to see him about an important matter , he had seemed so astonished that the only place he had been able to suggest was here . |
| 28 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 29 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 30 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |