Example sentences of "see themselves [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In resisting Home Rule and arguing for tariffs , Unionists had seen themselves as acting in the interests of nation and empire against a government that had the interests of neither at heart . |
| 2 | Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straightforward sense . |
| 3 | The intrusive authorial voice exemplified in this passage , and generally typical of the classic novel — the voice that confides , comments , explains and sometimes scolds — the voice to which we rather casually give the name that appears on the title-page ( Henry Fielding , Charles Dickens , George Eliot , or whoever ) is the most obvious sign that these writers saw themselves as engaged in an act of communication with their readers . |
| 4 | Information from the Novices showed quite clearly that they all saw themselves as working towards a position at the back of the terrace . |
| 5 | Indeed , those in the Behaviouralist camp saw themselves as working within an intellectual framework altogether different from that inhabited by the Realists . |
| 6 | Both the ELA and the new Shipping Federation , however , saw themselves as responding to the same trade union incursions into their members ' prerogatives . |
| 7 | They see themselves as belonging to a radical and anti-establishment tradition . |
| 8 | Despite the number of marriages broken by divorce , it seems that most young people make their vows in good faith , intend to keep them and see themselves as committed to the other for life . |