Example sentences of "[coord] show [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sisters did n't tell him about their books , or show him the new ones that they were writing . |
| 2 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 3 | Jacob can go with you , and show you the old coach road that leads to the signpost . |
| 4 | The energiser that interpenetrates the physical world and shows us the higher aspects of reality … ’ |
| 5 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 6 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 7 | ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings . |
| 8 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 9 | And showed you the right path to take , |
| 10 | As we were turning to follow his directions , he drew up his cuff and showed us the blue tattooed cross that all Copts have on the inside of their wrists . |
| 11 | Mr Rochester lifted the curtain , opened the secret door and showed us the little room . |
| 12 | ‘ Not all that big , ’ Mungo said , sitting down beside her and showing her the golden ball . |