Example sentences of "showed [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 When surveyors started sizing up her land , ‘ I got my shotgun out and showed them the gate , ' she said .
2 She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank .
3 Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book .
4 In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers .
5 He showed them the huge chest , far too heavy to lift , with the silver cups and plates for special occasions .
6 He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself .
7 ‘ No one was sure where to look but Oscar showed them the way , ’ said owner Celia Curtis .
8 She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man .
9 If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted .
10 I 'm just one of the Star Councillors , but I was n't in the Star Room when you showed them the animal .
11 After a long descent the shaft widened a little , and the light of their torches showed them the interior of the mine , the southern end of the tunnellings .
12 And lastly he showed them the stars and the clouds and the moon and all the winds of heaven .
13 The Autocrat , the chauffeur , the bodyguard : this showed them the gulf , the magical distance .
14 I showed them the place where the monster had jumped into the lake .
15 At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found .
16 Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms .
17 He showed them the mark on his hand .
18 The Court of Appeal held that he had appropriated the goods for the purposes of theft when he showed them the goods and invited them to buy .
19 But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’
20 He showed me the scars .
21 ‘ Rats , ’ I told him , but he opened the cover on the drain outside my back door and showed me the trap to stop rats climbing up .
22 When I arrived , Small showed me the bodies of two lambs killed by foxes the previous night .
23 The landlord showed me the way to the railway station and off I went .
24 She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house .
25 He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance .
26 He took me back to the past and showed me the future .
27 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 .
28 Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it .
29 He also showed me the passage in Captain Marryat 's Mr Midshipman Easy where Easy Sir , having invented a machine to alter the bumps on his head , tries to improve his personality ; with fatal results .
30 He showed me the label .
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