Example sentences of "saw him [prep] [art] [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 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 14 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 15 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 19 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 20 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 21 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 22 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 23 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 24 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 25 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 26 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 27 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 28 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 29 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 30 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |