Example sentences of "showed me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 2 | He showed me the scars . |
| 3 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 4 | He showed me into the lounge . |
| 5 | ‘ It belongs to my flatmate 's parents , ’ she said , by way of an apology as she showed me around . |
| 6 | ‘ Rats , ’ I told him , but he opened the cover on the drain outside my back door and showed me the trap to stop rats climbing up . |
| 7 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 8 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
| 9 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 10 | The memory was triggered by talk of a young woman I had met on one trip who showed me Dyrhólæy and the sea pinnacles of Reynisdrangar near Vik . |
| 11 | I know cos she showed me a picture once . |
| 12 | I 'd just lie on my back like Marie showed me and float like a fag packet . |
| 13 | I did n't want to stay there — I wanted to go home , but Mum told this old woman my name who smiled at me and showed me my bed and that . |
| 14 | When I arrived , Small showed me the bodies of two lambs killed by foxes the previous night . |
| 15 | Some of its relics are scrupulously cared for in the English Circle headquarters ; they showed me a pair of jockey scales , caricatures of riders clambering redfaced out of ditches , group paintings of the hunt moving off . |
| 16 | They showed me quite successfully but the eggs and tomatoes missed . |
| 17 | He showed me photographs of them together in a boat there , on a beach , in a restaurant . |
| 18 | This was the first poem Dana showed me , and one of the first I reworked with him . |
| 19 | Sometimes he immediately pounced upon whatever I said and showed me in a psychoanalytical way how wrong I was , and how right he was . |
| 20 | She laughed , and showed me how one of the windows led on to a tiny balcony and a view over ancient pasture-land ; across the lane spread the branches of a great oak tree . |
| 21 | Later Aunt Louise opened her bag and showed me a letter . |
| 22 | She had a room to herself , and showed me her built-in dressing-table , wardrobe , and cupboards . |
| 23 | ‘ I know that , ’ Marie was saying , ‘ 'cos she showed me her money this morning . |
| 24 | She showed me a half-built kennel block . |
| 25 | I did n't really believe the , so they showed me these pictures of themselves with Mr Brando , on his Tahitian island , their arms round him . |
| 26 | The landlord showed me the way to the railway station and off I went . |
| 27 | When I looked more closely , the ropes , winches and heaps of nylon netting showed me that they were superior fishing vessels . |
| 28 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 29 | A cheerful , freckled young woman showed me to a small seedy room and I began to unpack . |
| 30 | Father Devine beckoned and showed me a huge slab of rock . |