Example sentences of "to show [pers pn] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen was keen to show me his new electric racing car set and let me by the arm to his room . |
| 2 | He wanted to show me his new washing machine . |
| 3 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 4 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
| 5 | ‘ Ask him to show you his Swiss Army knife later , ’ I laugh , feeling a little treacherous . |
| 6 | Unfortunately he was too polite to show him his own front door after half an hour . |
| 7 | She felt a nervous spasm in her stomach as she passed the point where Fernand had led her from the path to show her his secret refuge . |