Example sentences of "[pron] was show the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No details were discussed : ‘ I was n't there more than a couple of minutes , but I did n't feel rushed and I am not quite sure how I was shown the door . |
| 2 | I was shown the furniture that Tom had made for his marital home — all of the drawers with dovetails , sliding in and out without effort . |
| 3 | I mean I was showing the figures and proved that er it was n't paying its way but to me it had always been our shop , you know , from when I was child and wonderful memories you know . |
| 4 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 5 | Well , I du n no , it 's go it 's got , I was showing th I was showing the licensing people round erm the inspection of , Jean we Jean was n't here , we were looking round and fire brigade and that were there and inspection , we turned round and all written across is Jean is a fucking fat cow ! |
| 6 | It did n't , and she was shown the door . |
| 7 | You are Friend — she studied the symbols of Friend 's identity with all that he meant to her of acceptance and caring , frightened that she was showing the nebulae of her longing for him too — but I can not read you perfectly . |
| 8 | One side of Beryl 's been left as it was to show the difference between before and after . |
| 9 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 10 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 11 | It was to his girlfriend in Harare and he told her straight away that he was showing the French a thing or two , but it still was n't like the old days with the Rhodesian Light Infantry . |
| 12 | to the Council Education Offices to see what school I could get him in , you see I wanted a good school for him because he was showing the ability , you know , er , and er eventually I went to Harlow Grammar school that 's what it was called then |
| 13 | From what she could see , he was showing the children how to rig the boats . |
| 14 | He was shown the puppets too , and the performance can not have gone entirely without excitement , because he mentioned to me explosions backstage and things falling down . |
| 15 | Since he was shown the door by United , McGrath has confounded medical opinion — and Ferguson 's — and become widely regarded as one of the world 's outstanding centre-backs with his displays . |
| 16 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |
| 17 | Charles Darwin , when he was shown the flower by baffled botanists , confidently predicted that , bearing in mind the flower 's colour and size , a night-flying moth would be its pollinator and that , unlikely though this might sound , it would have a proboscis a foot long . |
| 18 | He was shown the Kurume azaleas , which he later did much to popularize , and collected in Korea and Taiwan . |
| 19 | When he was shown the Demoiselles d'Avignon , Braque appears at first to have been bewildered by it , though he realized that it marked an important new departure . |
| 20 | He was shown the white tigers and was ready to be on his way when he was told the Maharajah wanted to see him . |
| 21 | Fleming was booked for a foul on Chris Leadbitter , hurting himself in the challenge and receiving treatment before he was shown the yellow card . |