Example sentences of "saw on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice saw on the desk that there was a white canvas bag in which stacks of notes had already been put . |
| 2 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 3 | You 'll , you 'll have noticed that er in reading that that it 's , it 's the part er on er Zeffirelli 's erm Jesus of Nazareth that erm that is actually what we saw on the film is actually what 's written here . |
| 4 | When Benny opened them she saw on the bed a thick navy skirt , a Fair Isle jumper in navy and red . |
| 5 | As patron of the Macintyre organisation the Duchess of York has worked closely with the mentally disabled for some years , but even she was surprised ; delighted with what she saw on the opening night . |
| 6 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 7 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 8 | When she arrived at the bus station she saw on the wall behind her bold , splashy writing in foreign characters , Arabic maybe or Urdu , and small , disordered scribbles around the glass faces of the timetables , which , although an irritation , caused Rita no real pain . |
| 9 | The building was completed by 457 B.C. , for Pausanias saw on the apex of the east pediment a golden shield or bowl with a Gorgoneion and below it an inscription ( still partly preserved ) saying that it was dedicated by the Spar tans , a tithe from the spoils taken from the Argives , Athenians and their allies at Tanagra , a battle which took place in that year . |
| 10 | And it is here , in the ‘ thinking ’ , we are told , that the programme falls down due to the ‘ lack of connection between reality and what you saw on the screen ( Charles Catchpole , News of the World , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 11 | He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’ |
| 12 | Another technical advance Chapman saw on the Continent was the ten-yard semi-circle to ensure that players kept their distance during a penalty kick . |
| 13 | ‘ Any luck yet with the two men Mike saw on the train ? ’ |
| 14 | Then to everyone 's surprise they saw on the side of the track a little old man perhaps in his seventies , wearing an old-fashioned waistcoat and jacket , standing in a brick arch-shaped embrasure looking anxiously at the train . |
| 15 | That 's like the one we saw on the telly a bat . |
| 16 | I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning . |
| 17 | Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’ |
| 18 | Like them men we saw on the newsreel , ai n't he ? ’ |
| 19 | Black & Decker has introduced the Cut Saw on the d-i-y market . |