Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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1 | He started up at my scream and I saw the dark blood on him and on me . |
2 | I saw the brown hair on the crown of her head , gleaming in the sun with a beauty I can not describe . |
3 | She saw the utter concentration on his face as he watched his hand move , tracing a line from her frantically beating pulse to the V of her shirt , slipping inside to close about her breast . |
4 | ‘ I 've got the premises already , ’ Emily said and then she saw the surprised look on Hari 's face . |
5 | She called out to the night-nurse who scurried over when she saw the red smear on the stiff white pillowcase . |
6 | She paused as she saw the wry expression on Joanna 's face . |
7 | Of course , people who saw the ill-starred couple on parade in Nottingham this week were n't exactly knocked out by the body language . |
8 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
9 | A Tory headquarters spokesman denied they disclosed her name to the press , claiming they did not know it until they saw the Independent newspaper on Wednesday . |
10 | He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father . |