Example sentences of "[pers pn] see on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 2 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 3 | Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’ |
| 4 | I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning . |
| 5 | He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’ |
| 6 | I see on the agenda this morning that an invitation has been extended for to come along and speak to us . |
| 7 | What would you see on the floor of the museum in the corner opposite the door ? |
| 8 | Can you see on the floor there to the left of the picnic table . |
| 9 | How many separate , dispersed , farmhouses can you see on the photograph ? |
| 10 | And , can you see on the end , look that 's where the flowers 'll grow , the blossom . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Benny opened them she saw on the bed a thick navy skirt , a Fair Isle jumper in navy and red . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | These are usually the people you see on the return flight with both legs in plaster . |
| 17 | The nouveau hippy thing you see on the surface is down to a trend . |
| 18 | Analysing the current is more difficult because what you see on the surface may be very different from what is happening near the river bed . |
| 19 | It can access private and company bank details , weather information , news , holiday bargains and even , should the user so wish , offer a local phone number for Madame Fifi Le Whiplash ( which explains a lot of those funny adverts you see on the Peripherique these days ) . |
| 20 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 21 | And er so you see on the wedding er card it had on er , Mr and Mrs Shaw request the pleasure of Mrs Abbott at their daughter 's wedding . |
| 22 | You do n't know what it 'll be like , if it 'll be like the scenes you see on the news every night . |
| 23 | I think the main reason for so many wasps this year is to , warm summers , and but it 's basically the long summer period , because we started , you see on the wasp complaints in May , which we do n't really start until half way through June , and we kept going right through , right until the middle of October , and they normally stop round the end of August , so that 's the main reason ; a very long , hot summer . |
| 24 | The house you see on the left is Fawnless Hall . |
| 25 | Erm while I 'm having a look at this although it would n't seem to me to be taking too long to look at this Trevor , what you see on the table over there |
| 26 | Everything you see on the stall |
| 27 | what you see is what you get — what you see on the screen should be printed looking exactly the same . |
| 28 | The scene itself may have been unsatisfactory as a subject , with flat lighting and dull colours combining to produce the sad-looking picture you see on the screen . |
| 29 | Now accepted in common parlance , it stands for What You See Is What You Get , the implication being that the image you see on the screen will be exactly that which you get on the page . |
| 30 | 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 . |