Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces .
2 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 .
3 ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain !
4 I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife .
5 Claire saw her as a red blur through the tears .
6 Perhaps if he fancied Perdita he saw her as a potential mother-in-law .
7 Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock .
8 Earning the obedience and respect of the women in the house , who saw her as no better than they were , was yet another obstacle .
9 Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life .
10 Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) ,
11 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 ’ .
12 ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence .
13 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 ’ .
14 But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life :
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I really saw him as a wicked murderer .
18 But that was it : she never saw him as a likely husband or lover .
19 Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed , athletic man with a steady gaze , manly features and narrow hips .
20 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 .
21 This time they saw him as a public enemy .
22 He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially .
23 Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss .
24 In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) .
25 His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s .
26 It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate .
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 .
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