Example sentences of "[adv] see the [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have all seen the report from Captain Myeloski . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And I should have realised that you 'd be the one who could only see the thing from one angle , ’ he retorted harshly . |
| 3 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |
| 4 | Shelley drove into the Casa Madrid grounds , past the ornamental gate flanked by its two tall palm trees , right to the door , where Miguel 's servant and cook had already seen the jeep from the window , and stood waiting to help him down . |
| 5 | I could not see the cairn from here . |
| 6 | I am careful to have my desk angled towards the centre of the room so that I can not see the view from the window across the park towards the lake and the western curve of the South Downs . |
| 7 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |
| 8 | ‘ He could always see the illusion from the point of view of the audience . |
| 9 | Since the date of last year 's report , we have also seen the retirement from the board of Ray Knowland , Sir Campbell Fraser and James Ross . |
| 10 | This date also saw the departure from the Middle East of the old carrier ‘ Eagle ’ , which left via the Suez Canal , whilst the headquarters of Fliegerkorps X moved from Sicily to direct operations over the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean . |
| 11 | A day of drama that also saw the expulsion from the Communist Party of Mr Milos Jakes , the former leader , and Mr Miroslav Stepan , until recently the Prague party chief , plunged the country 's three-week old ‘ peaceful revolution ’ into great uncertainty . |
| 12 | He also saw the process from both ends . |
| 13 | He could n't see the yacht from where he was sitting and Ruth was glad of that . |
| 14 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 15 | She could n't see the number from where she was , so she stole through the undergrowth and came up to it from behind . |
| 16 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
| 17 | I ca n't see the wreckage from here , so how do you expect someone to see it from up there ? ’ |
| 18 | Some writers even saw the transition from imagination to rationality as an evolutionary process ; Vico and Rousseau , for example , both suggested that natural man would have spouted poetry before he acquired rational speech . |
| 19 | Writers on its history have sometimes seen the century from 1780 to 1880 as a protracted interlude between the aristocratic rule of taste and the modem uniformity of the masses , for , with the agricultural slump in the 1880s , the great houses of the past lost their confidence in land and often their fortunes too . |
| 20 | Definitely see the wall from the house |