Example sentences of "[noun pl] saw [pron] [prep] the [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 The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties .
3 Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life .
4 The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel .
5 Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment .
6 His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness .
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