Example sentences of "[pron] showed [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 7 | She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again . |
| 8 | who showed him the true path : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He showed me the personal/Impersonal and the Individual/Group columns all drawn out as in figure 1 but the last column was missing . |
| 14 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 15 | He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again . |
| 16 | He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself . |
| 17 | He showed them the huge chest , far too heavy to lift , with the silver cups and plates for special occasions . |
| 18 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 19 | Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students ; he showed him the terrible , the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to , or change it . |
| 20 | He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill . |
| 21 | In particular it showed me the many opportunities we have , and that we are a talented organisation . |