Example sentences of "[vb past] see from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Marian explained what she had seen from the Ridgery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 7 | The room whose light Charles had seen from the front . |
| 8 | Beside it on a table burned a candle , the source of the light they had seen from the garden . |
| 9 | ( Mindful of what we had seen from the office , we volunteered as witnesses to the Board of Enquiry . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |