Example sentences of "[noun] show [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shattered after losing his young second wife , he moved to Bath , then in its social heyday , where a benign-looking portrait shows him at seventy , grasping a book entitled Views of Painshill . |
| 2 | Lord Brougham believed of Liverpool that : ‘ No minister ever passed his time with so little ill-will directed against himself , or had so much forbearance shown him upon all occasions . ’ |
| 3 | The factor showed them with fussy gestures where to set it . |
| 4 | The yellow glow from his little oil lamp showed her in unusual array , her black hair braided in a red ribbon , with curls artfully breaking free around her temples , her gown deepest and brightest blue like her eyes , and a girdle of gold braid round her hips . |
| 5 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 6 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |
| 7 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 8 | The representation of personages on monuments before the second quarter of the fifteenth century showed them in all their might , majesty and power , attired in their finery and dressed to illustrate their status . |
| 9 | But some of the astonishment was that we had Clark here resident in Edinburgh to show us in magnificent playing , the possibilities of this music . |
| 10 | Tina Howe 's Painting Churches shows her in full flight , as the wife of a distinguished Boston poet and the mother of a women painter who has come to do their portrait . |
| 11 | ‘ Charles and Diana — It 's Really Over ’ ran the headline in the daily Parisienne , above photographs showing them in happier days . |