Example sentences of "[pron] he saw [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 2 | Lévi-Strauss had already described the fundamental structure of society and language in terms of the exchange of women , which he saw as the basis of all exchange : |
| 3 | While he continued to raise the spectre of a return to German hegemony , his new policy ( voiced for the first time at Bordeaux in September 1949 ) revolved around a Franco-German entente , which he saw as the basis for a European confederation . |
| 4 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 5 | Mrs Jule Evans said she was devastated by the affair , she thinks her husband was mesmerised by the athlete , who he saw as the woman of his dreams . |
| 6 | On the way from the hospital , everything he saw in the streets was inexpressively beautiful , the light clearer than he remembered , ‘ the spaces more infinite ’ . |
| 7 | In Chile , Pablo Neruda was an established poet with a continent-wide reputation before his conversion to Communism under the impact of the Spanish Civil War — particularly the murder of García Lorca , whom he saw as the bearer of the spirit of Republican Spain . |
| 8 | He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method : |
| 9 | His aims included rectifying what he saw as the lack of information on derived publications , and on the time differences between thesis completion and publication . |
| 10 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 11 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 12 | His elitist paternalism underlay laws which instituted strict political and social controls for what he saw as the country 's politically immature population . |
| 13 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 14 | The poet did not share this sense , he actively disliked it , but he could not escape — not even in Europe — from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance . |
| 15 | He lacked the apparent knowledge , or confidence in the political verities displayed by what he saw as the heavyweight end of the editorial group , and friction occasionally surfaced . |
| 16 | His policies were empirical , dictated by what he saw as the necessities of the immediate situation . |
| 17 | But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows . |
| 18 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 19 | Besides , what he saw outside the window had too much potency , too much spell-binding sweetness for him to turn his back on it . |
| 20 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |
| 21 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 22 | He was so moved by what he saw inside the orphange that he felt he had to do something to give the children a better start . |