Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly . |
| 2 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 3 | Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection . |
| 4 | When I saw from the papers that Miss Ella Shields , the original Burlington Bertie from Bow , was to appear for a week at the Pantages Theatre on Hastings Street , I made it a point of seeing the show . |
| 5 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 6 | I saw from the clock that Ben had run 10.03 , not as fast as Carl , who had gone below ten seconds again . |
| 7 | I saw from the papers some time back that you were acting again ; I 've followed every turn of your fortunes , I can tell yer . |
| 8 | What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting . |
| 9 | She never looked at a woman 's magazine after that , though she saw from their covers , displayed beside the supermarket till , that they had not changed , but went on churning out the same old stuff . |
| 10 | Once again , as if the distressed caller knew she was there , that pitiful high-pitched cry floated thinly over the uplands to her , and this time she saw from where and what it came . |
| 11 | It was a quarter past five , she saw from the clock on Bank Station . |
| 12 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 13 | But that one As you saw from the the past papers that 's a usually quite a bit of marks go in for that . |
| 14 | We grew very fond of the Temple of Luxor which we saw from our window in every mood of light . |
| 15 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 16 | It was not therefore surprising if , on our last day of excavation , we saw from our elevated position men on horse and foot making their way towards us from all points of the compass , and we were told after our departure the top of the hill was crowded with visitors . " |
| 17 | As we saw from equation ( 8.40 ) , when and the solution appears to behave as though it were ideal . |
| 18 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 19 | ‘ Antwerp were amateurs compared to the play-acting we saw from Apoel at Clandeboye , ’ said Crowe . |
| 20 | That is to say , it assumes the hierarchical erm conception of God 's world and the ethic of obedience , which , as we saw from that prose passage , underlies the conception of the fall as the central sin . |
| 21 | Once they had set off , Mr Smith and Mr Jones , for all their being well into their middle years , proceeded to behave like schoolboys , singing coarse songs and making even coarser comments on all they saw from the window . |
| 22 | He looked at her and frowned as though he would make a denial and then he saw from her face that she knew the truth . |
| 23 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 24 | He saw from her eyes that she could not , would not believe him . |
| 25 | Then he saw from the sudden anxiety on the parson 's face that this too might be misunderstood . |
| 26 | He saw from the look that crossed Tuathal 's face that he was understood , even before he himself tossed someone his reins and , dismounting , walked down through the men , rallying them ; stopping to talk to the wounded ; lifting from the food-baskets some bread and a piece of mutton in passing . |
| 27 | he saw from the start that Piggy was a clever boy with many qualities , and he did not care about what Piggy looked like , but he knew as well that Piggy was evil like the rest of them . |