Example sentences of "[pron] showed me the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 2 | She was really odd , she showed me the way but she kept saying she would n't come in because she was n't allowed to set foot in there . ’ |
| 3 | She acknowledged this with a raised thumb , but when she showed me the assortment of charts on the bed-table pushed against the wall she gave a thumbs-down over his fluid-intake . |
| 4 | ‘ At the station they showed me the machine with an old mouthpiece and said I would have to blow into that . |
| 5 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 6 | And he just stuck the needle in his arm , and he said , ‘ Well , I think the baby 's a mongol ’ , and he showed me the door and that was it . |
| 7 | Been in the ground more than two hundred years , Dr. Mac said , and he showed me the crack — just like a cracked cup — where his skull had been bashed in . |
| 8 | He showed me the way . ’ |
| 9 | shows you a little tiny picture of the calculator and when you press one button it presses the button on the thing and then he showed me the clock |
| 10 | er then he showed me the alarm and the he sho right he 's got file of everybody ai n't got one of us though . |
| 11 | Knowing of my interests , he showed me the location , but preferred the continued existence of the species to the mild fame which would have accompanied his reporting the discovery in some scientific journal . |
| 12 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
| 13 | He showed me the journal of the Mountain Club of South Africa , which included an article detailing the attractions of climbing in the UK . |
| 14 | He showed me the label . |
| 15 | He showed me the tape of the race … ’ |
| 16 | He showed me the page of the book — the passage had been furiously scored with a pen nib . |
| 17 | He showed me the grass on which Tu'i Mala was wont to graze — Tu'i Mala being a blind Galapagos tortoise which Captain Cook presented to the Tongans in 1777 , and which died in 1966 at well over two hundred years old . |
| 18 | He showed me the zodiac panelling , and Lucia 's secret hiding-place . |