Example sentences of "showed [pers pn] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he showed them his real find , the Rivera murals , the white-clothed indigenos who were being liberated , the obese bosses with their cigars tumbling , the beautiful Mayan prostitute cheeking the bourgeois couple in Almeida Park . |
| 2 | Friend of mine , I had a beer with in the week , showed me his new car , and he said the big irritation is it does n't centrally lock , having been used to it . |
| 3 | During one of the hold-ups in play in the Centenary Test at Lord 's in 1980 , I met a splendid young man ( then aged about 14 ) from Yorkshire , who showed me his foolscap-size autograph book , beautifully kept , with separate pages for each country and county , adorned with photographs , magazine pictures , statistics and coloured inks . |
| 4 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 5 | They gave each other presents at the Hanukha-Christmas festival , and the rector showed me his latest gift , a book with the inscription ‘ To my friend the rector , from his friend , the rabbi ’ . |
| 6 | Lambert showed him his left shoulder . |