Example sentences of "see [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 2 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 3 | Ferdinando was far too old , but only mention the cause and he would be into his old daydreams , seeing himself at the head of a column moving relentlessly on the Austrians . |
| 4 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 5 | The only way he could escape from the harsh realities of life was to lose himself in books , allowing his imagination to take over , seeing himself as the characters he read about . |
| 6 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 7 | Well can one imagine Knobelsdorf , swept along by ambition , seeing himself as the organiser of victory at Verdun , exalted to become the Ludendorff of the Western Front . |
| 8 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 9 | Mosley came increasingly to see himself as the spokesman of the war generation , who refused to compromise his idealistic principles with the political realities of the post-war world . |
| 10 | Defoe , who travelled more of the roads of the country than most of his contemporaries , was inclined to see himself in the foothills of a better transport age — the equal of the fabled Roman achievement . |
| 11 | After all , I 've seen myself in the mirror . |
| 12 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 13 | The Ego is an expert at being defensive , at rationalising and justifying its own behaviour , at seeing itself as the hapless victim of a cruel , harsh world . |
| 14 | These moves will also mean that the probation service has to stop seeing itself as the exclusive provider of services and facilities : it is suggested that other voluntary or private sectors may make better provision . |
| 15 | But still we kept saying if only we could see ourselves on the video , that would help us . |
| 16 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 17 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 18 | In France the representative bureaucrat involved in space has had an elite technical or scientific education and sees himself as the partner and motivator of the innovative businessman . |
| 19 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 20 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 21 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 22 | All day he sees himself in the glass darkly |
| 23 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 24 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 25 | The bestowal of a right upon a third party gives rise to expectations on the part of that third party that the parties will act in conformity with the treaty in their relations with itself ; without necessarily having made any commitment of its own it will see itself as the beneficiary of the exchange of promises between the parties . |
| 26 | She had lived her twenty-two years surrounded by life 's little luxuries , all the wonderful comforts that money could buy , and she did n't see herself as the sort of healthy , hardy girl who could endure too many minor inconveniences with a cheery smile . |
| 27 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |
| 28 | But she did not see herself like the archaeologist , because for her , there was a way out . |
| 29 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 30 | Joanna Grenside is described as beautiful — but when she sees herself in the mirror , she wo n't see that . |