Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were . |
| 2 | Doubtless they describe the hard life of the villager and the poverty of his surroundings as Crabbe saw them : but he was not a peasant , as Clare was , and he saw them from the outside as harsh , ugly and wretched . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw them from my window . |
| 4 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 5 | I saw them from the penthouse bar |
| 6 | ‘ I saw you from the top of the tower . |
| 7 | He saw you from the window just now . ’ |
| 8 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I saw you from the window . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I saw you from a distance this morning , did n't I ? |
| 11 | I saw you from my truck . |
| 12 | Getting to her feet , Rachaela saw her from the window , dawdling off along the road towards school . |
| 13 | I saw her from the window , walking upright on two canes without a pause and there were twenty cliffside steps from the gate to my borrowed front door . |
| 14 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 15 | She saw him from fifty yards away , coming towards her ; then he spotted her and when they came together he was smiling and had a hand outstretched with which he took her elbow . |
| 16 | I saw him from my window — |
| 17 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 18 | An old cathedral had a scale when you saw it from the mountain , or the plain , the silhouette . |
| 19 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 20 | Medley is ‘ everywhere infinitely a picture ’ ; Lockleigh , ‘ as they saw it from the gardens , a stout grey pile , of the softest , deepest , most weather-fretted hue , rising from a broad , still moat … a castle in legend ’ , is another ‘ noble picture ’ . |