Example sentences of "i see [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 3 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 6 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 8 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 9 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 11 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 12 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 15 | I see him as a servile little bugger ! |
| 16 | I thought he played well against England last week and I see him as a valuable member of our squad . ’ |
| 17 | On being asked by someone else whether she saw God as male or female , she replied ‘ Neither : I see him as an absolute supreme Being ! ’ . |
| 18 | I have a feeling its not too different from how Leeds play now , that s why I see him as an excellent ( joint ? ) |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I see him in a white coat . |
| 21 | ‘ Now I see her as a potential suicide — the ultimate protest . |
| 22 | I see it as a personal thing . ’ |
| 23 | I myself have no inclinations towards mysticism whatsoever : I see it as a conscious attempt to transcend the exigencies of the material world , including poverty , in the interest or pursuit of some higher mode of consciousness . |
| 24 | I see it as a silly gesture springing from her work in advertising , the promotion of appearance over substance . |
| 25 | The sunlight is falling like a gentle rain and I see it as a silent , unpolluting fuel ; which when it reaches the ground bursts forth in leaves and flowers and is the strength which upholds the trees , and if it failed , all life would fail . |
| 26 | His view of contemporary comedy as a whole is equally oblique : ‘ I see it as a very , very long trench with a worm and a piece of hot bacon nearby . ’ |
| 27 | In fact , as things stand I see it as the only course for you to take … |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 29 | I see it as the ultimate gesture . ’ |