Example sentences of "what [pron] saw [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief . |
| 2 | There was no competition here , no assumed superiority on the part of another to make her uneasy or defensive , only what she saw as shared experience , delightful in retrospect . |
| 3 | God alone knows what she saw in that brute . |
| 4 | His eyes met hers , and what she saw in those burning blue depths sent a wave of pure sensation racing through her . |
| 5 | He remarked , " I got rid of what you saw in that hole out there . |
| 6 | This account was mainly intended to bring together some of the comments made by the members of the Arkleton Trust Advisory Committee on what they saw of rural development in Lewis and Harris . |
| 7 | This was true in so far as RCM workers were frequently driven to distraction by what they saw as unreasonable demands by orthodox children and their elders . |
| 8 | Other early ministers were pushed into politics by the reaction of others to what they saw as religious activity . |
| 9 | Such powers , with a bad record on human rights , were quick to show resentment at what they saw as American meddling in their internal affairs . |
| 10 | She 's so flighty and daffy and he 's so glum and boring — you always wondered what they saw in each other . |
| 11 | Mr. Bailey 's own views are not stated , but as his appointment had included that of vaccinator , his reaction to this command was probably provoked by what he saw as lay interference in a professional matter . |
| 12 | It was equally predictable that these contacts were liveliest with the West Frankish church ; and that it was Charles the Bald who responded most strongly , both positively , to papal appeals for help , and also aggressively , to what he saw as papal interference in the West Frankish church 's political concordat with his own regime . |
| 13 | Of the various attempts that have been made to apply Althusser 's principles , by far the most wholehearted and discerning is the work of Nicos Poulantzas , who offered both an account of the state in capitalist societies and an analysis of what he saw as one of its exceptional forms fascism . |
| 14 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |
| 15 | With a substantial widening of the franchise , Peres hoped to head off what he saw as PLO-inspired recalcitrance and allow the accommodationist vote to prevail . |
| 16 | His autobiography makes it clear that Terence O'Neill had no sympathy with what he saw as parochial unionism . |
| 17 | Then , as he frequently did , he took a moral line , based on what he saw as natural law , and said he would not blame , and might even assist , the victim 's relatives in such a case , should they wish to exact retribution and then hide . |
| 18 | Through their objectivity , he argued , search consultants were able to provide what he saw as conceptual help in defining a business need and translating it into the sort of people who could fulfil it ; actually searching for people was perhaps less important . |
| 19 | As a Scottish member of the Parliament in London for more than thirty years after its inception in 1707 , he had the opportunity to make direct contrasts between what he saw of improved English farming methods and those still prevailing in his own country . |
| 20 | He was encouraged by what he saw in these rekindled friendships . |