Example sentences of "they showed [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the girls helped her to get the fire going , spread the tablecloth , put out the cups and plates , laughing and whispering and bustling about as they showed her the places and secrets of the kitchen , the room that was now her room . |
| 2 | As they showed her the house , Rose seemed to enter completely into the terrible awareness of Moran now sitting in the car chair meditatively rotating his thumbs about one another . |
| 3 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 4 | They showed him the boat . |
| 5 | ‘ At the station they showed me the machine with an old mouthpiece and said I would have to blow into that . |
| 6 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 7 | when they showed me the ropes : |
| 8 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 9 | we went in , you know , and that was the place an'all even the carpet that 's twelve hundred pound , cos they showed us the bill , you know er it 's been a it 's dirty and that but you know that wants , wants a good washing you know |
| 10 | There was only one good bit in the film — when they showed you the lit–de bastard pissing up a wall . |
| 11 | thought he 'd cut and things like this and then they showed you the chap the next day and he was completely different ! |
| 12 | Actually there was a little bit , they showed you the four goals on the television so they might show it on the nine o'clock |