Example sentences of "see [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A girl lives in the image of her mother , and the mothers sees herself in the child . |
| 32 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 33 | ‘ It 's full speed ahead for the seasons , and , if I can , I work 12 or 14 hours a day then , because otherwise I ca n't see myself through the quiet times . |
| 34 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |
| 35 | Men can see themselves as the ideal human type because they live in structures in which they are dominant . |
| 36 | He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers . |
| 37 | And they would see themselves as the Babes in the Wood , or Cinderella , or young princes more lovely than the morning , turned adrift on the world to seek their fortunes , while vulgar and ugly cuckoos slept in their beds and drank the top of the milk . |
| 38 | It is vital that social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services — not as monopolistic providers . |
| 39 | For Mary Law , seeing herself on the video was ‘ an eye-opener ’ : |
| 40 | Ianthe hesitated , seeing herself with the parish party . |
| 41 | A beautiful woman , Simone Weil said , seeing herself in the mirror , knows ‘ This is I. ’ An ugly woman knows , with equal certainty , ‘ This is not I. ’ Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification . |
| 42 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 43 | Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others . |
| 44 | Sarah asked the nanny , standing on tip-toe to see herself in the gilt-framed mirror in the hall . |
| 45 | It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity . |
| 46 | The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule . |
| 47 | It means that Paul VI saw himself as the true heir of Pope John — but of a very different Pope John from the version usually presented to the public . |
| 48 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 49 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |
| 50 | Nehru saw himself as the central figure ; the veteran of the fight against colonialism and the apostle of non-alignment . |
| 51 | Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut . |
| 52 | He saw himself as the only point of free will in the landscape before him , and if he could move his body with a purpose , then his mind would shake off the slough of misery and clear for action . |
| 53 | He saw himself as the political leader of the Evangelicals , but in reality his views were too extreme and his style too combative for him to command general support . |
| 54 | Mandeville , who saw himself as the King 's own commissioner and therefore self-appointed leader , shouted orders ; the great gates swung open , and he led us out . |
| 55 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 56 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 57 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 58 | Henry saw himself in the air , high above the sea and the shingle , spread out like a starfish , Elinor above him , cackling wildly . |
| 59 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 60 | Denis Healey soon saw himself in the role of bridge-builder between the West German government ( which particularly feared any decline in the credibility of nuclear deterrence ) and McNamara who hoped to avoid the first — or at least the early — use of nuclear weapons . |