Example sentences of "[verb] see [noun prp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , the Europeans came to see Persia as an ally against the Ottomans . |
| 2 | Americans now came to see Castro as a threat and Cuba as a potential base for Communist activity throughout Latin America . |
| 3 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 4 | It begins to improve when Joe nurses Pip back to good health , which is very powerful and moving and Pip once again begin to see Joe as that ‘ gentle Christian man ’ . |
| 5 | Of course it will be difficult because at the moment the er the legal minimum is thirty miles an hour in , in any city , but we 'd like to see Oxford as a pilot for a twenty mile an hour speed limit which is no good if you leave the roads as they are . |
| 6 | The press began to see Morrissey as the spokesman for a new generation . |
| 7 | One must resist seeing Bakhtin as the US Cavalry , riding in to rescue a threatened humanism from howling poststructuralists . |
| 8 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 9 | The Americans have begun to see Ukraine as an interloper threatening the post-cold-war world order , above all by its reluctance to ratify nuclear-arms treaties , which might unravel the carefully negotiated global web of arms-control accords . |
| 10 | Now , we 've seen Jane as a passionate , spirited outspoken little girl have n't we ? |
| 11 | I do n't think that that chance will come until your husband retires so , in the meantime , you must learn to see Germany as your home . |
| 12 | Some philosophers of religion have seen God as a higher stage of this process . |