Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [prep] an [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 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 3 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 4 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 5 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |
| 7 | A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery . |
| 8 | Whatever it was , the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity . |
| 9 | He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow 's international relations . |
| 10 | Many saw it as an ideal opportunity for the Prince and Princess to put on a united front , quashing speculation over their marriage . |
| 11 | Critics of the report saw it as an old-style socialist attempt to plan the future of an industry , without due regard to market forces . |
| 12 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 14 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |