Example sentences of "[pers pn] show he the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 2 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 3 | She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again . |
| 4 | He rose , paced about the little room , stared at the oak bureau , remembered it in his old room , in the nursery ; it had come here with Matey — he remembered her showing him the secret drawer it held , quite capacious , and unthinkingly worked the mechanism which opened it — |
| 5 | When dinner was over he liked Diana enough to ask her to show him the 115-foot-long picture gallery which then housed one of the finest private collections of art in Europe . |
| 6 | 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 . |