Example sentences of "saw [pn reflx] as the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity .
2 Mandeville , who saw himself as the King 's own commissioner and therefore self-appointed leader , shouted orders ; the great gates swung open , and he led us out .
3 Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream .
4 Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand .
5 The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule .
6 Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut .
7 In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books .
8 Emily saw herself as the Elephant 's Child in the Just So Stories , drawn by her ‘ satiable curiosity to partake of all new experience .
9 That is , it originally comprised the band of Dionysus-worshippers who , in their ecstatic state , saw themselves as the god 's goatlike attendants , fictitious nature spirits in a fictitious natural state .
10 In the 380s and 390s pagan aristocrats such as Q. A. Symmachus , Vettius Agorius Praetextatus , or Nicomachus Flavianus , alienated from the Christian court and from the men newly risen through its patronage into the upper ranks of society , saw themselves as the guardians of ancient Roman values , including Roman religion , literature , and even artistic styles .
11 They shared the community 's commitment to education and saw themselves as the vanguard of it .
12 They were both arrogant , both lechers , both saw themselves as the answer to all the problems on earth .
13 Resisters , on the other hand , saw themselves as the nation-in-arms .
14 Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled .
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