Example sentences of "to show [pers pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , we have to show them we 're terribly trustworthy or something , show them that if we are allowed to wander off , we 'll wander back in good time . ’ |
| 2 | By the eighteenth century the position in Rome had become so impossible ( since not merely considerable areas around foreign embassies but also churches and the houses of cardinals offered refuge to criminals ) that the papal police had to be equipped with special maps to show them which streets they were permitted to pass through . |
| 3 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 4 | He done it for his soldiers , to show them what they had to do . |
| 5 | You know the sort of thing — you get an expert in to show them what they should wear . |
| 6 | Yes , of course it 's important to invest in pictures and it 's a very good way of getting to know people , business people and so on — and to show them what sort of person you are . |
| 7 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 8 | Give the people of and this country the opportunity to show them what choice they 're gon na make , and it wo n't be a Tory Government , it 'll be a Labour Government . |
| 9 | You 'll be able to show them what you had at pictures , wo n't you ? |
| 10 | Ahead there was just enough light to show them they were about to enter the mouth of another tunnel . |
| 11 | What is more , God loves them just as much as he loves you , and he wants YOU to show them his love . |
| 12 | Julie said , ‘ Will we have to show them our work ? ’ |
| 13 | Now it 's nice to show them I am really around . ’ |
| 14 | I wanted to show them I was n't afraid ! |
| 15 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
| 16 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 17 | ‘ The infirmary , perhaps , but there 's no need to show them anything else . ’ |
| 18 | COUNTESS : I can no otherwise strike dead they bold presumption than to show thee my scorn and anger thus . |
| 19 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 20 | I think the idea has to be to show me something , in case I miss it . ’ |
| 21 | Want to show me something . |
| 22 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 23 | In front of the church of St Maurice I met Lenka , a music student who had promised to show me what she described as ‘ the biggest organ in Central Europe ’ , all 2,311 pipes of it , the largest more than thirty feet tall , the smallest eight millimetres of solid silver . |
| 24 | My second meeting with him was when , on commencing my first job at a rubber factory 3 years later , he was the senior apprentice sent by the foreman to show me what my work entailed . |
| 25 | The old lady only smiled and leaned over to show me what to do . |
| 26 | " Right , " you say , " this is to show me what sort of a man it is who lives here . " |
| 27 | An was not that enough to show me what I had to fear ? |
| 28 | ‘ He sent the women to show me what to look for . |
| 29 | To show me what to look for . ’ |
| 30 | Well you should y I I I er these la these these labels are so difficult to fit because if you say , Moving to the right , you then have to show me what policies the government is pursuing and you 'll probably find that I either play the part in thinking off argu arguing for them some years before some of my colleagues . |