Example sentences of "see him [prep] the [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 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 3 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I can see him through the open bar . |
| 6 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 7 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 8 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 14 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 15 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 16 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 17 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 18 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 19 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 20 | But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place . |
| 21 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 22 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 23 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 24 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 25 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 26 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 27 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 28 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 30 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |