Example sentences of "see [prep] [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archimedes became ‘ that divine man ’ and Galileo saw in Euclid the wonder of geometry , especially in the work on ratios , which Galileo was to expand and use to its limit later . |
| 2 | Cottle , who four years later was to publish the Lyrical Ballads and in old age produced his garrulous and unreliable Reminiscences , immediately saw in Coleridge the signs of ‘ commanding genius ’ , but reserved for Southey 's ‘ great suavity of manners ’ his more enthusiastic praise . |
| 3 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 4 | When Paullus saw at Olympia the gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Pheidias , he declared he felt himself in the presence of a god . |
| 5 | I see for Larbert the prospect of all the changes that I outlined in answer to the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) . |