Example sentences of "[noun] saw [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 2 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 3 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 4 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 5 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 6 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 7 | Charles and Louis saw it as a divine Judgement , confirming their claims to a share in the Frankish heartlands . |
| 8 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 9 | Some nationalists saw it as a cosmetic measure , to end the talks on a high note for Unionists . |
| 10 | Although O'Neill tried to present the case as one of the law simply taking its natural course to deal with illegal disorder , the Free Presbyterians saw it as a deliberate attempt to use the apparatus of the state to suppress true Bible Protestantism . |
| 11 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 12 | Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed , athletic man with a steady gaze , manly features and narrow hips . |
| 13 | Some or the political personalities saw it as a new political pressure point on the Westminster government . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 16 | Critics of the report saw it as an old-style socialist attempt to plan the future of an industry , without due regard to market forces . |
| 17 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 18 | Claire saw her as a red blur through the tears . |
| 19 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 20 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 21 | Whatever it was , the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity . |
| 22 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 23 | The Tories saw it as a constitutional disaster without parallel , the Whigs as a famous and hard-won victory for a bold and far-reaching measure against the reactionary defence of an out-dated and corrupt constitution . |