Example sentences of "saw him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I really saw him as a wicked murderer . |
| 9 | But that was it : she never saw him as a likely husband or lover . |
| 10 | Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed , athletic man with a steady gaze , manly features and narrow hips . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |
| 13 | Suddenly she saw him in a new guise . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |