Example sentences of "saw [noun] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 2 | Nonconformists saw slavery as an affront to their religion ; utilitarians dismissed it as inefficient . |
| 3 | But the man was a romantic and probably saw Steve as an obstacle he might have to overcome . |
| 4 | Olive Edis saw portraiture as an art and worked on her belief that ‘ the photograph … should be the X-ray of the soul . |
| 5 | Are we to deduce from this that Vincent saw Theo as an artist-manqué , or was he simply trying , not too hard in this instance , to shift the guilt a child feels before a self-sacrificing parent ? |
| 6 | If , for example , a provision may be of doubtful import , such resort would be perfectly legitimate … ( p145 ) Because Chalmers saw codification as an improvement in the form of the law , resurrection of old authorities is easy . |