Example sentences of "shown [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 3 | Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born . |
| 4 | So I 've shown you the good points and the bad points of it , I think it 's well worth using . |
| 5 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |
| 6 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 7 | Her view of the driver of the Renault , albeit only a back view , had shown her the thick dark hair of someone obviously quite young . |
| 8 | Then Finn had come up , grim , silent and dripping blood , wordlessly shown her the dreadful cut and gone upstairs to his sister for a bandage . |