Example sentences of "show [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 2 | We 'd best go on down and I 'll show ye the sittin' room . |
| 3 | ‘ I will show you the only book no-one has ever read a word of . ’ |
| 4 | With this drop of ink at the end of my pen , I will show you the roomy workshop of Jonathan surge , carpenter and builder in the village of Hayslope , as it appeared on the 18th of June , in the year of Our Lord , 1799 . |
| 5 | The machine has a large , touch-sensitive , digital screen that displays clear instructions — and , should you make a mistake in a procedure , it will show you the correct step , so you really ca n't go wrong . |
| 6 | When Caro made her escape after tea it was with all the usual feelings of guilt and frustration ; with her mother suggesting brightly , ‘ Just let me measure you for that new jumper before you go , Carolyn , ’ and , ‘ Did I show you the new suite we were thinking of getting , in the catalogue ? |
| 7 | I can show you the broken elastic in my tracksuit if you like . |
| 8 | Shall I show you the big needle ? |
| 9 | The tour will show you the whole manufacturing process by following the progress of a pair of shoes from start to finish around the factory . |
| 10 | I will show you the innermost secret of life . |
| 11 | Past examination papers will also show him the probable lay-out of the paper that he will be expected to answer , and the amount of time likely to be allowed on each question . |
| 12 | Then he could show him the dismal landscape , and drawings he had done recently , some of which he had shown the Reverend Pietersen . |
| 13 | ( Note that where the errors do not immediately show what the correct word is , it 's best to write a reminder of the word beside it . |
| 14 | It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice . |
| 15 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |