Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 2 | ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain ! |
| 3 | Claire saw her as a red blur through the tears . |
| 4 | Perhaps if he fancied Perdita he saw her as a potential mother-in-law . |
| 5 | Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock . |
| 6 | He saw her through a gilt-framed mirror on the opposite wall , and that first glimpse of her brought him more joy than a dozen Christmases put together . |
| 7 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 8 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |
| 9 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 11 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 12 | But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life : |
| 13 | The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge . |
| 14 | She liked his quiet manner , his bookish looks , his thin hands emerging from the voluminous sleeves of jerseys knitted for him by his mother who plainly , in her mind 's eye , saw him as a strapping youth of six foot two . |
| 15 | I really saw him as a wicked murderer . |
| 16 | But that was it : she never saw him as a likely husband or lover . |
| 17 | Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed , athletic man with a steady gaze , manly features and narrow hips . |
| 18 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 19 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |
| 20 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 21 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 22 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 23 | Suddenly she saw him in a new guise . |
| 24 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 25 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 26 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |
| 27 | The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies , which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute 's technical effort . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly Teetotalism at first ran into opposition from some Nonconformists who saw it as a rival pseudo-religion . |
| 29 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 30 | IN BRITAIN , the wrangle was blasted by critics who saw it as a possible blow to Manchester 's hopes of hosting the Olympics in the year 2000 . |