Example sentences of "[pers pn] show his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Grey Horse ’ had enjoyed a line season , losing just once ( when conceding a great deal of weight in a handicap over two miles , a distance now too short for him to show his best ) , and winning the King George VI Rank Chase , steeplechasing 's other classic , for the third time . |
| 2 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 3 | While we would not want him to show his full negotiating hand at this stage , he gave us very little information . |
| 4 | The jokes and the conversations end abruptly with ‘ But this is worshipful society ’ and at that point he shows his real toughness and ambition . |
| 5 | He shows his usual great concern about the level of service given by the Huddersfield jobcentre to his constituents . |
| 6 | We are made to wait while he shows his new toys ; a scarlet tricycle , a pull-along duck , a space-age gun playing the tunes of eight different police sirens when you pull the trigger . |
| 7 | It 's a great chance for the 27-year-old to revive his career — and Halifax could make the move permanent if he shows his fearsome form of three seasons ago . |
| 8 | The artist paints the face and body of the sitter , but in fact he shows his own feelings . |
| 9 | And he showed his cynical disregard for the system by suggesting that promotion and relegation should be on an eleven-up , eleven-down basis . |
| 10 | After they had talked a while longer , he showed his young visitors out , through the shop . |
| 11 | He was educated at Cardiff Intermediate ( later High ) School , where he showed his academic paces , winning four distinctions in the senior honours certificate of the Central Welsh Board at seventeen . |
| 12 | Then last weekend at Thruxton he showed his true potential when he finished second behind Australian Russ Ingall 's Van Diemen , and ahead of all the other Swift drivers . |
| 13 | It shows his remarkable powers of orchestration and his unique gift for melody and was played with fire and fervency ; a fine foretaste of the delights of Mozart 's G major piano concerto No 17 K453 . |