Example sentences of "[pron] he saw [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 His elitist paternalism underlay laws which instituted strict political and social controls for what he saw as the country 's politically immature population .
9 This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows .
13 He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist .
14 Besides , what he saw outside the window had too much potency , too much spell-binding sweetness for him to turn his back on it .
15 He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him .
16 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 .
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