Example sentences of "see a [noun] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
2 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
3 | Well if you if you ca n't see a door from the road then that will be the ideal entrance I would have thought . |
4 | You will have invested time and effort in the activity and you have a vested interest in seeing a return from the investment . |
5 | ‘ Look out ! ’ warned Billie , seeing a movement from the room behind . |
6 | All the rafts reached the finish line at Chepstow , but for Herefordshire , it was disappointing to see a crew from the Home Counties win , with a raft from Cheshire in second place . |
7 | Dr Vincent and Dr Jones delivered the message to Downing Street after Mrs Thatcher refused to see a delegation from the church , a decision which they described as an ‘ affront ’ . |
8 | I whispered in his ear ‘ I saw a letter from the advertising director of the Sunday Chronicle . |
9 | " Thanks to Mr. Durnall I see two automatic red ticks for a North sign ( crossed ) and a scale whenever I draw a sketch map , I can not photograph an Himalayan paddy-field without looking for moving water , and whenever I see a settlement from the air I think " site factors " . " |
10 | ‘ Well , of course , you can go through the usual channels , wait for your original birth certificate to arrive , see a counsellor from the adoption agency — ’ |