Example sentences of "see him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman . |
| 2 | Leslie had an aunt in Durban , but by great misfortune disembarkation was on this occasion not allowed , and he did not meet the relative who had last seen him as a little boy in Scotland . |
| 3 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 4 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 5 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 6 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 7 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 8 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |
| 9 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 10 | I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion . |
| 11 | I said I did n't go out with married men and did n't see him in a romantic way . ’ |
| 12 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 13 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 14 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 15 | At the first performance Vivienne was terrified by Sweeney , seeing him as a homicidal madman . |
| 16 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |
| 17 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 19 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 20 | But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She liked his quiet manner , his bookish looks , his thin hands emerging from the voluminous sleeves of jerseys knitted for him by his mother who plainly , in her mind 's eye , saw him as a strapping youth of six foot two . |
| 23 | I really saw him as a wicked murderer . |
| 24 | But that was it : she never saw him as a likely husband or lover . |
| 25 | Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed , athletic man with a steady gaze , manly features and narrow hips . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |
| 28 | Suddenly she saw him in a new guise . |
| 29 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 30 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |