Example sentences of "he see [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or did he see it as a force for change ? |
| 2 | Does he see you as a partner , or is he already the boss ? |
| 3 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 4 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 5 | He sees himself as a protector . |
| 6 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 7 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |
| 8 | He sees it as a weakness of international law that no such machinery exists , and argues that an internationally authorised force should be set up by the UN Security Council to intervene in rogue states on various continents . |
| 9 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 10 | He sees it through a glass , sentimentally , romantically ; it is either too pretty or too brutal ; it lacks ordinariness . |
| 11 | But the reader gains as well , because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 12 | But the reader gains as well because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 13 | He saw something behind a lot of old boxes . |
| 14 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 15 | He saw himself as a courtier only by profession and hated to find himself succumbing already to the sycophantic atmosphere of the Palace offices . |
| 16 | He saw himself as a man who fell in love , not one who had affairs . |
| 17 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 18 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 19 | He saw himself as a great , strong animal who could always protect his girl . |
| 20 | He saw himself as a ladies ’ man , when in his cups , a troubadour from Provence . ’ |
| 21 | He saw himself as a child , running towards someone . |
| 22 | He said that he saw himself as a ‘ medium , not a message ’ . |
| 23 | He saw himself as a good Art teacher : |
| 24 | Perhaps he saw them as a threat . |
| 25 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 26 | I think that because I was wearing dark clothes and not giggling , he saw me as a challenge . |
| 27 | He saw her through a gilt-framed mirror on the opposite wall , and that first glimpse of her brought him more joy than a dozen Christmases put together . |
| 28 | Perhaps if he fancied Perdita he saw her as a potential mother-in-law . |
| 29 | He saw her as a person injured by life , as he was injured . |
| 30 | He saw everything through a red mist . |