Example sentences of "to show [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exercise was also aimed at big business — experts from some of Britain 's largest chemical companies were invited , to show them first hand the consequences should chemcial cargoes be released in such an accident . |
| 2 | Well , I 'm going to show them real nomes … ’ |
| 3 | People have brought their cars to my advice surgery to show me burnt paintwork caused by soot deposits . |
| 4 | She 's anxious to show me this pasty that she 's made . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear , since we first came to this terrible place you are the only person to show me true consideration . ’ |
| 7 | He was actually asking God to show me some sign . |
| 8 | These are facility code cards , they are cards to show you each facilities codes to use . |
| 9 | If you could draw closer er Trevor I need to show you some papers okay ? |
| 10 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 11 | Our Viewdata system features a ‘ Search ’ facility to enable the agent to show you last minute availability and prices . |
| 12 | And er and of course that was interval and then er and they used to come and sit down and they used to show you another film . |
| 13 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 14 | What I want to show you this afternoon , is that the power of the child 's imagination is a factory which we have but to encourage , not to teach . |
| 15 | S so what I want you to show you this morning is how we can actually make the chlorine . |
| 16 | C.C. was told : ‘ Sometimes we are going to show you red shapes on a green background , sometimes green shapes on a red background . |
| 17 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said David , grinning at her , ‘ and I shall go on trying to show him that Socialism is a fairer and much more just system than Capitalism . ’ |
| 18 | The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . " |
| 19 | But to show him another prodigy equally astonishing , let him examine the most delicate things he knows … |
| 20 | Towards the end of his life Gouzenko went blind but the news was kept so secret that in 173 MI5 sent an agent to show him some photographs in the hope that he could recognise Hollis . |
| 21 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 22 | Mitch began to talk normally and Maggie willed him not to ask Ana to show him these horses her brother reared . |
| 23 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
| 24 | After the therapist encouraged the couple to think of ways of being positive in their behaviour towards each other , Ann agreed to wear more attractive clothes , and Charles to show her more consideration and affection by praising her appearance , and expressing positive feelings towards her . |
| 25 | We have the example of the anaerobic bacteria to show us that life can exist — indeed , may have to exist — without the presence of oxygen , but that is a slightly different concern : it seems likely that these bacteria evolved in an oxygen-rich environment and then adapted to ecologies lacking in oxygen . |
| 26 | It is in fact the privilege of dramatic poetry to be able to show us several planes of reality at once . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Nicholson , ’ Paul Merrick said , brushing loose strands of wispy hair from his face , ‘ you said you were going to show us some kind of answer to the problems of overcrowding . |
| 28 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 29 | If only Kinnock had been able to show us this side of himself when he was still Leader of the Labour Party , the election might have had a very different result . |