Example sentences of "saw he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crouching down in order to finish dressing his back afresh , she was surprised to feel a lump come into her throat and saw him through sudden tears , making her confused and uneasy . |
| 2 | She loved him neither for his even disposition or vast estate — for neither could he offer — and saw him through many tempestuous years of attempts to influence bands and musicians to the floaty sounds that have now met such brilliant commercial success . |
| 3 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 4 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 5 | Looking down , she saw him beside a bush , only half concealed , laughing at her face . |
| 6 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 7 | From that moment on , the Kremlin saw him as a ‘ realistic ’ politician — in other words , as one who urged the people to accept the invasion . |
| 8 | No-one saw him as an alternative to the increasingly-authoritarian left-wing regime of Maurice Bishop in the early 1980s . |
| 9 | They saw him as a bulwark against a ‘ red menace ’ . |
| 10 | But that was it : she never saw him as a likely husband or lover . |
| 11 | Maud too saw him as a type ; in her case he represented the restriction and boredom of countless childhood country weekends of shooting and tramping and sporting conversation . |
| 12 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |
| 13 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 14 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 15 | But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life : |
| 16 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 17 | They saw him as the ‘ honest broker ’ who might help negotiate a resolution of the Middle East 's problems . |
| 18 | I suppose she saw him as an escape . ’ |
| 19 | She liked his quiet manner , his bookish looks , his thin hands emerging from the voluminous sleeves of jerseys knitted for him by his mother who plainly , in her mind 's eye , saw him as a strapping youth of six foot two . |
| 20 | The Muslims saw him as a Russian , the Russians saw him as a Muslim . |
| 21 | The Muslims saw him as a Russian , the Russians saw him as a Muslim . |
| 22 | The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge . |
| 23 | Baker 's part in such compromises angered conservatives in the country who saw him as a closet liberal subverting the president 's conservative instincts . |
| 24 | Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed , athletic man with a steady gaze , manly features and narrow hips . |
| 25 | Her mind was open as long as the man had great quality ; she saw him as an explorer possibly , or an English statesman . |
| 26 | She saw him as a reflection of herself , devious and cunning , her partner in many a conspiracy ; the most successful of which had been the manipulation of that slut of a girl in Tyler Blacklock 's lodging house . |
| 27 | I really saw him as a wicked murderer . |
| 28 | It was easier , for example , to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film , possibly played by Orson Welles . |
| 29 | Some saw him as a prophet , a Welsh Kossuth or Mazzini , a ‘ lost leader ’ . |
| 30 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |