Example sentences of "[noun] to show [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask your parish priest to show you the scale of charges and to explain the fees to you . |
| 2 | Bruno de Bayser attracted a lot of attention , albeit no buyer , for a magnificent FFr 1.2 million ( £123,700 ; $215,250 ) red chalk drawing of a young woman by Fragonard a deliberately eye catching piece to show what the gallery is capable of but did sell ten works including three female portraits by Dunker , Jeaurat and Quesnel for under FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) . |
| 3 | Montag 's speech is a desperate attempt to show her the reality of her life . |
| 4 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 5 | With Clearblue One Step , in just three minutes a blue line appears in the small window to show you the test 's complete . |
| 6 | Now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from , in fact the same case , and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is making the reference , it what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , in fact the terms were caused in the statute er something which in involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline the law to show us the simply strong case to justify the er , er the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 7 | Kathleen Claar , custodian of the Last Indian Raid Museum in Oberlin , Kansas , took him to a small cemetery to show him the grave of her husband and of Rick Read , the last man lynched in the state . |
| 8 | Bowes must have taken Nedham into God 's Gift to show him the place where the accident happened . |
| 9 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 10 | Made no move to show him the glass . |
| 11 | He and her mother were more than welcome , she would delight in the chance to show them the treasure that was hers , but leave it she would not . |
| 12 | She rushed up the stairs to the top of the house where she knew her brother 's room was before Nick had a chance to show her the way . |
| 13 | A few seconds later , all is done — the screen changes to show you the status of the transfer , and drops back into split screen mode as soon as it is finished . |
| 14 | Some people ask a friend to show them the ropes , or , worse still , they teach themselves . |
| 15 | There is no evidence to show what the position was at the end of the last war but in all probability there has been an improvement over the years . |
| 16 | Not really well we the Blackstone engineer fitting up engines , he stayed with us for a while to show us the ropes like you know . |
| 17 | In truth we do not need the stories of Achan and Ai to show us the mind of the God of this part of the Genesis — Kings narrative . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll get one of the staff to show you the way . ’ |
| 19 | Helen half-turned and tipped her toes to show him the grazes on her calves . |
| 20 | Granny said it gave her someone to talk to when she was baking or doing the housework and Grandad liked to take Morag to the farm next door to show her the hens and pigs and the other animals who lived there . |
| 21 | a mirror to show him the road ahead . |
| 22 | These days this happens when you check in and of course I was asked to open my suitcase to show them the contents . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be around in the summer to show you the ropes , depend upon it . |
| 24 | Mr. Pantry informed Mr. Small , for the defence , of the discrepancy between the 12 January statement and Matadial 's evidence about the telephone call after the shooting , but did not consider it his duty to show him the statement . |
| 25 | I almost feel it 's my duty to show you the error of your ways . |
| 26 | When I arrived , the King of Blefuscu sent two guides to show me the way to the capital . |
| 27 | I made a picture from the same flowers to show what the rose bushes would yield the following summer . |
| 28 | Perhaps , perhaps you could take a few moments to show me the house , your room , where you work ? ’ |
| 29 | She 's arguing with the serving woman who 's lifted all the lids from the hot dishes to show her the succulent variety . |
| 30 | The rule as now settled is that they are inadmissible in order to show what the committee thought its proposals meant , but admissible under the rule in Heydon 's case to the extent that they show the mischief against which the Act was directed . |