Example sentences of "[noun] show [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These books show us a great adventure that only a few people undertake and finish . |
| 2 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 3 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 4 | But , she says , she did think that Ken showed him a certain degree of respect . |
| 5 | At the end of each section there is a summary of the main events of each of the legs showing us the different problems of all 23 entries . |
| 6 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
| 7 | And Bergman 's film Wild Strawberries shows us an elderly professor at the peak of his career , about to receive the highest academic honour in the land , who dreams the night before of failing an examination . |
| 8 | He looked up , and the flickering torchlight showed him a vaulted cavern-roof innocent of tooling by men . |
| 9 | Health Home Cooking shows you the new way to serve food that 's light , tempting and satisfyingly nourishing . |
| 10 | Rain showed him the offending paragraphs . |
| 11 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 12 | He led us across the antechamber to show us a tar-drenched jacket lined with sulphur which hung from a hook on the wall . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 14 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 15 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 16 | The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach . |
| 17 | The sultan showed us the royal regalia which were secreted in the palace . |
| 18 | We 've used both Danish Blue and Lurpak in our recipes to show you a few ways of bringing a flavour of the Continent to your cooking . |
| 19 | Mowbray said : ‘ A few years ago , Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch showed us a two-hour video of Bill Shankly talking about football and life in general . |
| 20 | Athelstan showed him the forlorn , shallow holes in the ground , the mud piled high on either side as if some demented creature had clawed the corpses out . |
| 21 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 22 | The mirror showed me a youngish man , perhaps a little thin and no more than average height — whatever average is in a galaxy overflowing with exters and mutant humans . |
| 23 | Beneath the shirt , the mirror showed her the small fine flowers of her delicate bra could be seen . |
| 24 | Anne showed her the black bottle . |
| 25 | The movement was founded by George Fox , who was walking one day on Pendle Hill when , as he said , the sky opened and the Lord showed him a great multitude of people waiting to be saved . |
| 26 | Lastly an open door showed him a high square room , almost certainly set under the campanile , which was obviously both the vestry proper and the bell room . |
| 27 | SCORPION WOLFCHILD , just recently moved to London , is stalking some attractive , mysterious , bright , sweet-smelling females to show him a good time . |
| 28 | But others showed him a mere two or three points ahead . |
| 29 | She 's arguing with the serving woman who 's lifted all the lids from the hot dishes to show her the succulent variety . |