Example sentences of "[verb] to show [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to show him all the beautiful things trees , flowers and birds but most of all I want him to see his big sister , Katie . ’ |
| 2 | If you 're happy and you know it clap your hands , if you 're happy and you know it clap your hands , if you happy and you know it and you really want to show it , if you 're happy and you know it clap your hands if you happy and you know it stamp your feet , stamp your feet ah get off , get off , if you 're happy and you know it stamp your feet , stamp your feet , if you 're happy and you know it and you really want to show it happy , if you 're happy and you know it stamp your feet , stamp the feet |
| 3 | What I want to show you this afternoon , is that the power of the child 's imagination is a factory which we have but to encourage , not to teach . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to show you this , ’ Viktor said . |
| 5 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 6 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 7 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
| 8 | Maybe Angy had offered to show her some more of her work , or lend her a book or something . ’ |
| 9 | And er and of course that was interval and then er and they used to come and sit down and they used to show you another film . |
| 10 | FIVE FUNKY FEMALES between 17 and 18 years into soul/hip hop/house- Enjoy warehouse parties , would seriously love to hear from people all over the place , especially males who would like to show us some good places . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 12 | When the doctor opened a large book , he countered , ‘ I bet you 're going to show me some bloody ink blots . |
| 13 | Well , I 'm going to show them real nomes … ’ |
| 14 | I 'm I 'm pleased it 's flavour of the month because it 's just going to show you all when w when you listen to his words . |
| 15 | And you say , today we 're , tonight we 're talking you over to the hub and we 're going to show you all this , and I take them and get over there about ten o'clock , and we go along there to , to look at the , the slats and the trays and there are all these masters flying around being terribly excited about this , terrific noises , and they say , God this is great , but how many parcels will go through tonight ? |
| 16 | Now this one I 'm going to show you this one this time . |
| 17 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 18 | C.C. was told : ‘ Sometimes we are going to show you red shapes on a green background , sometimes green shapes on a red background . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Nicholson , ’ Paul Merrick said , brushing loose strands of wispy hair from his face , ‘ you said you were going to show us some kind of answer to the problems of overcrowding . |
| 20 | Whatever the latter meant , the order was instantly obeyed , but by that time the thief had whipped Estabrook 's wallet into his own pocket , and had stepped back , hands raised to show them empty . |
| 21 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 22 | On both media Mr Mulford managed to show us some previously unseen and very imaginative shots , and indeed it is a constant source of wonder how many good photographs taken in our own area are unknown to most of us . |
| 23 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said David , grinning at her , ‘ and I shall go on trying to show him that Socialism is a fairer and much more just system than Capitalism . ’ |
| 24 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 25 | But it , it just goes to show you that , you know if you , if if you go down the structured way , it does work . |
| 26 | If you could draw closer er Trevor I need to show you some papers okay ? |
| 27 | ‘ I wanted to show you these . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted to show you this . ’ |
| 29 | And of course we have seen that Wittgenstein wanted to show it impossible that there should be beings who behave like us but have no sensations or different sorts of experiences from ours . |
| 30 | So you have to show them that is very important , not because of the mercury recovery but because of their health . |