Example sentences of "he saw [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 2 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 3 | ‘ Progressive ’ educational sentiments also provided important elements in Baden-Powell 's Boy Scout philosophy , and he never tired of criticising what he saw as the dulling conformity and uninspired education provided by the State . |
| 4 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |
| 5 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 6 | In any case , the language coming from the Chairman 's office was usually that of pure political correctness , with many attacks on censorship and on what he saw as the benighted enemies of art . |
| 7 | When he looked back upon his short time at the Choir School of King 's College , it was the meeting with Milner-White which he saw as the memorable gift from the school . |
| 8 | In his specially-commissioned report , Dr Lyons pinpointed what he saw as the four factors leading to his suicide . |
| 9 | The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ) and the The Woodlanders ( 1887 ) marked first his literary return to Wessex and then his growing conviction that fiction should not conceal what he saw as the essential tragedy of the human condition . |
| 10 | But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism . |
| 11 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 12 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 13 | He criticized in particular what he saw as the fundamental flaw in a system based on the pursuit of points : that a team was given a point before it even kicked a ball . |
| 14 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 15 | For years he had continued a running battle with producers and film companies whom he saw as the bad guys . |
| 16 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 17 | His Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone expounds what he saw as the ethical basis of religion . |
| 18 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 19 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 20 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 21 | Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 . |
| 22 | The new restrictions were thought to derive from the Prime Minister 's concern at what he saw as the growing influence of " exclusivist " religions such as Christianity and Islam . |
| 23 | Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism . |
| 24 | Irwin 's policy , then , was amity , meaning the perpetuation of government by those genetically equipped for it , in what he saw as the public interest , with public support . |
| 25 | Although starting in psychoanalysis as a pupil of Freud , his work soon spread into what he saw as the related spheres of biology , physics , meteorology , astronomy and politics . |
| 26 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 27 | Was Lothar , perhaps , dedicating his work to the man he saw as the likely next pope ? |
| 28 | ‘ There is apparently some great defect in our system , ’ concluded Khrushchev from his pensioner 's park bench as he compared what he saw of the capitalist West with the shoddy goods , poor food and massive waste of the supposed workers ' paradise . |
| 29 | Ian McCloud , of Unicef , celebrated as he saw off the first UN convoy of food in weeks . |
| 30 | Then he saw from the sudden anxiety on the parson 's face that this too might be misunderstood . |