Example sentences of "[pron] saw on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I saw on a church bill-board recently the familiar statement , ‘ Wise men still seek Christ ’ .
2 ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once .
3 No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night
4 She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way .
5 Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’
6 I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning .
7 He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 When Benny opened them she saw on the bed a thick navy skirt , a Fair Isle jumper in navy and red .
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 Like them men we saw on the newsreel , ai n't he ? ’
15 That 's like the one we saw on the telly a bat .
16 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 .
17 Peach had an intuitive genius for discerning geological structures : what he saw on a mountainside led him to visualize the arrangement of the rocks below .
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