Example sentences of "showed i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up the dice , and showed me six sides . |
| 2 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's six months since you first showed me that X-ray . |
| 4 | It showed me that d-i-y decorating and repairs need not always be so technical and difficult — and you do n't have to be a big strapping man to do d-i-y . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew for certain when you showed me that photograph , and I realised it was Gaston , not Fabien whose picture she had kept all those years . |
| 6 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 7 | He showed me one day what he called his killing-bottle . |
| 8 | I walked like some sleepwalker as he showed me empty rooms and a steep , stone-vaulted cellar . |
| 9 | I did n't really believe the , so they showed me these pictures of themselves with Mr Brando , on his Tahitian island , their arms round him . |
| 10 | I once asked Alec Motyer , who was the wise and saintly principal of my theological college , how to hear the guidance of God , and he showed me some verses from Isaiah 50:4 , 5 which he called a deep place of guidance in the Bible : |
| 11 | I said no .. , so he said er , I 'll show you a quick video he said , and he showed me this video , part in Manchester and part in Peterborough two old girls got these crash helmets on |
| 12 | And one 's been on er apparently I did n't know this but George showed me this morning . |
| 13 | Alan showed me another way out of the bar , so we avoided Young Trotsky , and walked with me to the van . |
| 14 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |
| 15 | She showed me last night when I was fucking her salami ! |
| 16 | Sue showed me those pictures you sent , but they were so small and faraway and you were all wearing those funny oil-rig hats , I could n't really see you . |