Example sentences of "see him as the [adj] [noun] " 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 We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags .
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