Example sentences of "showed him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edouard took him on a tour of the stables ; he showed him the tack-room ; he introduced him to the horses , and gave the little boy lumps of sugar to give them . |
| 2 | ‘ You can come twice for that , ’ she promised , and showed him the tip of her tongue . |
| 3 | Quinn , meanwhile , joined Coventry with a good luck message from the boss who showed him the door at St James ' Park . |
| 4 | More controversy followed when Leeds showed him the door following an incident at a North Wales training camp . |
| 5 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |
| 6 | The IR visor of his helmet showed him the desert as if by the light of an overcast day . |
| 7 | er er you were going , you were going well with the , the pension you , you wanted him and your diagram was good and he was going for it but directly you showed him the diagram then you started on about this er |
| 8 | She showed him the music . |
| 9 | None , not even literary men of distinction in their own right , like E. M. Forster , Ronald Duncan and William Polmer , showed him the way or disputed his paramountcy . |
| 10 | He showed him the work of Karl Barth , who , though a Swiss , then taught at the Protestant faculty at Münster in North-West Germany , and was the leader of European reaction against the conventional liberal schools of divinity . |
| 11 | Mary showed him the work she had done in the garden , and they talked as they cut and cleared . |
| 12 | The captain followed the direction of the American boy 's pointing finger for a moment , then lifted his left wrist and showed him the dial of his watch . |
| 13 | He gave him a document and showed him the photocopying room . |
| 14 | As she showed him the barn , they began to talk of the forest . |
| 15 | The faint glow from a street light showed him the outline of a hedge , neat flower beds , a black oblong of lawn . |
| 16 | He showed him the mess library and the official telephone , then discreetly vanished . |
| 17 | and I showed him the escape hatch in the cockpit , " open this hatch and get out and get as far away from the aircraft as you can " . |
| 18 | The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury . |
| 19 | Indeed , he might have been perturbed to think that I was diverting so much energy towards his defence ; but , so far as I know , he was ignorant of these interventions of mine , as I never showed him the letters or alluded to them . |
| 20 | When , at the end of two hours , they finally showed him the document and he acknowledged what had happened , ‘ there was a sigh from the assembled people . ’ |
| 21 | When the head of the Commissioners , Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve , who was no man to be trifled with , arrived a few days after the Commissioners approved the expenditure , the butler Alexander showed him the restoration already complete . |
| 22 | Rory showed him the pin . |
| 23 | Porter was carrying a large floppy-covered book ; she went straight up to an African writer , N'dosi , showed him the book , held open , and offered him a biro . |
| 24 | They showed him the boat . |
| 25 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 26 | I showed him the photograph but he declared that the cottage had stood close to the road , nowhere near my site . |
| 27 | He handed the sheet back and Horowitz showed him the piece of paper with the registration number of Tweed 's Mercedes . |
| 28 | The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero . |
| 29 | Soon after Walter Luff 's arrival as Transport Manager in 1933 , Marshall showed him the design for the new railcoach , which fitted exactly the requirement for the Promenade and Fleetwood route . |
| 30 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |