Example sentences of "see [noun prp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 2 | Many Christians do not see Jesus as a sacrifice in the same way . |
| 3 | In retrospect , we can see Charles as a man of immense energy ; we know from chronicles that he slept lightly and that he commenced state work very early in the morning , judging litigants in his private chamber . |
| 4 | Of course , we can see Saddam as a gangster and a bully , the ‘ violent boy from At-Ouja ’ . |
| 5 | He came , he told us , because his understanding of the ideological struggle makes him see Rhodesia as the most sensitive battlefield . |
| 6 | Clearly the scene was beautiful , even though I do not see London as my city . |