Example sentences of "they saw [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 2 | They saw him as a bulwark against a ‘ red menace ’ . |
| 3 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |
| 4 | They saw him as the ‘ honest broker ’ who might help negotiate a resolution of the Middle East 's problems . |
| 5 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 6 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 7 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 8 | Both babies would smile stickily when they saw me over the edge of the cot , which was gratifying in a way , but I knew it was only because they were programmed that way , like public relations men . |
| 9 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 10 | They saw us as a natural choice to work with . |
| 11 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 12 | They saw it as a series of failures , lapses from the ideal procedures by which a community ought to make its political decisions . |
| 13 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 14 | When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile . |
| 15 | They saw it as a betrayal of their promise that by making a full confession Blake would be more leniently treated and felt that such a heavy sentence would deter any future traitors from confessing . |
| 16 | They saw it as a move away from a possible patronising stance of deliberate scruffdom . |
| 17 | The world and its leaders reacted very differently to the news of Ceauşescu 's fall : Westerners , even those who had flattered him , rejoiced , but the rulers of Third World or Communist states mourned him — not only for his own violent end , but also because they saw it as a premonition of their own impending fates . |
| 18 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 19 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 20 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 21 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 22 | They saw it as an attack on feminine intelligence , it so obviously was n't and the argument is , by now , nothing but hearsay . |
| 23 | It was not surprising , therefore , that while the Six were willing to discuss the Grand Design within the OEEC context , they saw it as an addition to , not a replacement for , their own plans . |
| 24 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 25 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 26 | Medley is ‘ everywhere infinitely a picture ’ ; Lockleigh , ‘ as they saw it from the gardens , a stout grey pile , of the softest , deepest , most weather-fretted hue , rising from a broad , still moat … a castle in legend ’ , is another ‘ noble picture ’ . |