Example sentences of "[noun] showed [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 2 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 3 | When I arrived , Small showed me the bodies of two lambs killed by foxes the previous night . |
| 4 | The faint glow from a street light showed him the outline of a hedge , neat flower beds , a black oblong of lawn . |
| 5 | Their flickering light showed her the way down the hall to where she placed another candle in an alcove and then , with matches in hand , she walked towards the living-room . |
| 6 | Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity . |
| 7 | When the head of the Commissioners , Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve , who was no man to be trifled with , arrived a few days after the Commissioners approved the expenditure , the butler Alexander showed him the restoration already complete . |
| 8 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
| 9 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |
| 10 | Rory showed him the pin . |
| 11 | ‘ When Data General showed us the changeover to the AV4100 , it took an hour , ’ says Geoffrey Holmes , a former publisher of ACCOUNTANCY who has been helping to re-implement the system . |
| 12 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 13 | Kee showed her the stone on his grandfather 's grave and Karen read the words slowly . |
| 14 | A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank , narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived . |
| 15 | Rain showed him the offending paragraphs . |
| 16 | Soon after Walter Luff 's arrival as Transport Manager in 1933 , Marshall showed him the design for the new railcoach , which fitted exactly the requirement for the Promenade and Fleetwood route . |
| 17 | The landlord showed me the way to the railway station and off I went . |
| 18 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 19 | He handed the sheet back and Horowitz showed him the piece of paper with the registration number of Tweed 's Mercedes . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 21 | After a long descent the shaft widened a little , and the light of their torches showed them the interior of the mine , the southern end of the tunnellings . |
| 22 | The owners showed me the hotel rooms , which looked extremely pleasant and had pure cotton sheets . |
| 23 | The IR visor of his helmet showed him the desert as if by the light of an overcast day . |
| 24 | George pointed wordlessly to an immense tank of water and with amusement showed me the system for telling the quantity of the contents . |
| 25 | A police inspector showed him the body . |
| 26 | ‘ No one was sure where to look but Oscar showed them the way , ’ said owner Celia Curtis . |
| 27 | ‘ We had found nothing until Oscar showed us the way . ’ |
| 28 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 29 | Mary showed him the work she had done in the garden , and they talked as they cut and cleared . |
| 30 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |