Example sentences of "[vb past] see from the " in BNC.

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1	Beside it on a table burned a candle , the source of the light they had seen from the garden .
2	Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate .
3	He had seen from the Select Committee 's Report that Scott had studied the Greek and Italian styles as well as Gothic and , being ‘ a person of great talent ’ , he hoped he would put ‘ a more lively and enlightened front to his buildings ’ .
4	At every opening in the trees , across every glade , and beside every hidden pool , Marian looked to see that glint of white she had seen from the Ridgery ; it was never far from her mind .
5	Marian explained what she had seen from the Ridgery .
6	( Mindful of what we had seen from the office , we volunteered as witnesses to the Board of Enquiry . )
7	Some of the former private enterprise managers ( notably E. H. E. Woodward on the Central Authority and Harry Randall at the London Board ) had seen from the beginning that proper decentralisation required that the Boards relate capital expenditure to revenue-earning potential in order to retain direct control of their financial viability ; and outside commentators were sometimes surprised that the Boards ' decisions on capital expenditure to meet statutory obligations were made quite separately from the revenue estimates which determined their profitability .
8	The room whose light Charles had seen from the front .
9	The settee he had seen from the window was against one wall and Alfred Glynn was lying on the floor in front of it , his body oddly contorted .
10	They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
11	That , as I had seen from the outside , was shrouded in green plastic , and , as all the windows seemed to have been boarded up , there was scarcely any light at all .

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