Example sentences of "see the [noun sg] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to see the maid-of-all-work from St Jude 's Rectory , whom she had met after church last Sunday , staring at her . |
| 2 | These details make it clear that Beveridge regarded young workers as constituting a separate source of labour supply which required specialized provision and that he agreed with the ASEA and the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers in wishing to see the transition from school to work treated as an educational matter ( though not necessarily one controlled by the Board of Education ) . |
| 3 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 4 | In his time , David has seen the change from coal to oil , and now to gas fired boilers . |
| 5 | Has the Prime Minister seen the prospectus from Pathfinders Repossessions plc , which is a company which proposes to buy repossessed homes at auction and then flog them off or rent them at a huge profit ? |
| 6 | ‘ You have all seen the report from Captain Myeloski . ’ |
| 7 | Has the Prime Minister seen the report from Mr. Graham Jackson , consultant cardiologist at Guy 's trust hospital , who says : ’ You put ’ — seriously ill heart — ’ patients on a list to come in but , by the time their turn comes , the contract has run out and the trust administrator says there are no funds till the next financial year ’ ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The middle years of the fourteenth century saw the change from mail armour to plate , while the coming century or so witnessed many improvements in design , so that arrows , bolts , and pikes were met with glancing surfaces which , like the changes in architecture intended to counter the effect of the cannon ball , caused the deflection of the missile away from its target . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On his way home through Weatherbury he saw the coach from Bath . |
| 12 | Elizabeth says in her cheerful voice that will not be cheerful by nightfall , ‘ I saw the woman from Ty Fach today . |
| 13 | I saw the woman from Ty Fach today . |
| 14 | Even in Russia the years after the death of Peter I saw the exemption from service of considerable social groups hitherto liable — the merchants of Astrakhan in return for a money payment , the arms-makers of Tula , Church servants , some groups of the better-off peasantry . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Furthermore , these Creole features of grammar do not appear to carry any particular symbolic value either ( see the quote from Hewitt above ) and the contexts in which they occur do not make them look like code switches . |