Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were . |
| 3 | I saw them from the penthouse bar |
| 4 | ‘ I saw you from the top of the tower . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw you from the window . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You saw someone from the group on the train , is that what you 're saying ? |
| 7 | An old cathedral had a scale when you saw it from the mountain , or the plain , the silhouette . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He saw you from the window just now . ’ |