Example sentences of "show him " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Wordsworth 's case , as we might expect , most of the paintings show him in middle or old age after he had become famous . |
| 32 | But at least they could frighten him , show him that the Scots would never forget nor forgive what he had done , that he would never be safe anywhere near Scotland . |
| 33 | ‘ Thanks , Jean ; show him in , please . |
| 34 | But they show him as being very bright and intelligent and far from naive . |
| 35 | Lam 's stylistic passage through Primitivism , Cubism , and Surrealism show him to be a man of his times . |
| 36 | Either way , when the character can see the weather-vane clearly , show him Handout 6 . |
| 37 | As a hunter-god and protector of animals , he was armed with spear and shield — sealstones show him so — and his weapons became religious symbols . |
| 38 | Time would validate him , the way Klein had said it would ; uncover his many works , and show him , at last , as the visionary he was about to become . |
| 39 | And even if ‘ Un sospiro ’ and the second of his two versions of ‘ La campanella ’ are slightly less distinguished , the three Hungarian Rhapsodies again show him at his most elegantly eloquent , as well as brilliant . |
| 40 | The young Greindl 's few phrases as Daland show him devoid of the unsteadiness that would later mar his singing . |
| 41 | His platform photographs show him sometimes in a Blackshirt uniform like an army battledress , sometimes in a black suit buttoned tightly across his broad chest and a high-necked pullover , microphone clutched in his right hand , and left pushed into his jacket pocket . |
| 42 | Show him the location of the toilets , dayroom etc . |
| 43 | One of the best ways to keep pro-active is to feed regularly the client with new information — even rumour and gossip — that show him you are thinking about his company and its commercial interests . |
| 44 | Wilson is a simple man like most policemen , show him a body and he wants to know whose it is , how it died and who 's responsible . |
| 45 | Any number of factors may turn up that show him to have been mistaken . |
| 46 | Photographs of that time show him to have been clean shaven and crisply dressed . |
| 47 | His first student essays in photography show him fascinated by natural order and symmetry , the geometry of nature , the abstract face of concrete things . |
| 48 | This does fulfil the essential of making your hero gain some useful fact from each scene you show him or her in , though the danger for the tyro plotter is that at the end of each interview one more suspect will have simply been " written out " . |
| 49 | His sisters did n't tell him about their books , or show him the new ones that they were writing . |
| 50 | Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle . |
| 51 | She tried so hard to help him , to talk with him and show him how much she cared … how much they all cared . |
| 52 | It became obvious as soon as Annunziata handed round the soup tureen that Comfort was deliberately trying to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was . |
| 53 | ‘ That will get stolen , ’ the minister of health exclaims when I show him the picture of the pressure cooker that is meant to be used as a steriliser in the dispensaries . |
| 54 | Show him where things are . |
| 55 | " I 'd be grateful if you 'd go with Inspector Massingham and show him . |
| 56 | But he 's that Doctor , he says , er just show him that wee tracer , and he 'll know , but |
| 57 | He styled himself ‘ gentleman ’ and his publications show him to have been something of a virtuoso , interested in the state of agriculture , industry , and the national economy . |
| 58 | John became a justice of the Common Bench in Easter term 1275 and the formal records of the court show him acting as a justice continuously down to the end of 1289 . |
| 59 | Rosenberg 's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry , but his tone is different : more impersonal , informal , ironic , and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon [ qq.v . ] . |
| 60 | Early water-colours show him already using some of the techniques of miniature painting , and the scale and meticulous detail of all his work suggest that he was truly a miniaturist at heart . |