Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain ! |
| 2 | Claire saw her as a red blur through the tears . |
| 3 | Perhaps if he fancied Perdita he saw her as a potential mother-in-law . |
| 4 | Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I really saw him as a wicked murderer . |
| 14 | But that was it : she never saw him as a likely husband or lover . |
| 15 | Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed , athletic man with a steady gaze , manly features and narrow hips . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |
| 18 | Suddenly she saw him in a new guise . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly Teetotalism at first ran into opposition from some Nonconformists who saw it as a rival pseudo-religion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Charles and Louis saw it as a divine Judgement , confirming their claims to a share in the Frankish heartlands . |
| 26 | We saw it as a tremendous opportunity to secure the future of our Elderslie factory by introducing more volume and generating more profit for our group — particularly at a time when I know everyone is aware that business is very tight in all our trading divisions . |
| 27 | Some or the political personalities saw it as a new political pressure point on the Westminster government . |
| 28 | Blackburn has been associated with the New Left Review 's analysis of the Labour Party , which saw it as a Labourist trend in politics with no connection to socialism . |
| 29 | John presumably saw it as a figurative event which symbolised the purpose of Jesus ' ministry . |
| 30 | ‘ I actually saw it as a great challenge . |