The phrase "he perceived it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when wanting to convey an idea that someone has noticed something or gained an understanding of a situation. For example, "He perceived it was time to act".
The reality, as he perceived it, is the opposite.
"If he perceived it as something other than that, he can explain it on the stand," she said.
He produced a series of paintings, intimate and troubling, that captured the world as he perceived it through his bad eye.
Everything went into it; it was a writing life of inclusiveness, an attempt to get the whole universe, as he perceived it, onto the page.
Despite relying on the well-to-do for commissions, he was no obliging sycophant and depicted the character of his sitter as he perceived it.
And his history is totally, wildly, selective -the '&apos compound,'' the powerful little group of esthetic dictators (esthetocrats, one can imagine Mr. Wolfe calling them) never really existed as he perceived it.
He relates his own disillusionment to the fact that, as he perceives it, "my profession is in a sort of midlife crisis of its own".
He's the king of doomed things, really doomed places, doomed relationships but I doubt he perceives it that way.
It addresses the problem, as he perceives it, that his UK-trained apprentices leave much to be desired when compared with the compagnon journeymen he has met.
Kretz is a vocal supporter of his constituents' way of life and fights back when he perceives it to be threatened.
Whedon has done something similar to what he did in "The Avengers" — namely, to make a film that's in tune with the political zeitgeist as he perceives it.
