Example sentences of "[noun] to show [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his life Gouzenko went blind but the news was kept so secret that in 173 MI5 sent an agent to show him some photographs in the hope that he could recognise Hollis . |
| 2 | Our Viewdata system features a ‘ Search ’ facility to enable the agent to show you last minute availability and prices . |
| 3 | Valdemar was extremely helpful and took the next day off work to show us some of the local birds . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear , since we first came to this terrible place you are the only person to show me true consideration . ’ |
| 5 | He was actually asking God to show me some sign . |
| 6 | Mitch began to talk normally and Maggie willed him not to ask Ana to show him these horses her brother reared . |
| 7 | She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused . |
| 8 | After the therapist encouraged the couple to think of ways of being positive in their behaviour towards each other , Ann agreed to wear more attractive clothes , and Charles to show her more consideration and affection by praising her appearance , and expressing positive feelings towards her . |
| 9 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 10 | People have brought their cars to my advice surgery to show me burnt paintwork caused by soot deposits . |
| 11 | The Clothes Show Magazine team invited Alison to show us some of her favourite outfits , as well as a selection of clothes that Betty wears . |
| 12 | These are facility code cards , they are cards to show you each facilities codes to use . |
| 13 | We have the example of the anaerobic bacteria to show us that life can exist — indeed , may have to exist — without the presence of oxygen , but that is a slightly different concern : it seems likely that these bacteria evolved in an oxygen-rich environment and then adapted to ecologies lacking in oxygen . |