Example sentences of "[pron] showed [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 2 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 3 | Nobody showed me no fucking script ! " |
| 4 | She showed me a half-built kennel block . |
| 5 | She showed me a large bag made of toughened brown paper with a sealing device at the mouth . |
| 6 | She showed me a little bottle before we got back on the truck . |
| 7 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
| 8 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 9 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 10 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 11 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 12 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 13 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 14 | She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again . |
| 15 | who showed him the true path : |
| 16 | And as Clarissa usually ties back her hair , we showed her a sophisticated style that takes only seconds , but looks professional . |
| 17 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 18 | They showed me a new way of life . |
| 19 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 20 | Actually there was a little bit , they showed you the four goals on the television so they might show it on the nine o'clock |
| 21 | Finally , he declared low ; I declared both ways ; and he showed me a concealed three . |
| 22 | He showed me a little thing , the size of a hazelnut , in the palm of my hand , and it was as round as a ball . |
| 23 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 24 | He showed me the personal/Impersonal and the Individual/Group columns all drawn out as in figure 1 but the last column was missing . |
| 25 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 26 | He showed me an underwater grotto , a light-shafted nave of pale-blue shadows , where the large wrasse floated as if in a trance . |
| 27 | He showed her a yellow bear with a bow tie round its neck , riding a bicycle . |
| 28 | When they arrived back at the butterwood where he had been sleeping he showed her a white fungus around its base . |
| 29 | Having made his choice , he showed her a short , stout leather strap , before applying it to her naked seat . |
| 30 | He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again . |