Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] showed [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Indeed , he might have been perturbed to think that I was diverting so much energy towards his defence ; but , so far as I know , he was ignorant of these interventions of mine , as I never showed him the letters or alluded to them . |
3 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
4 | When , at the end of two hours , they finally showed him the document and he acknowledged what had happened , ‘ there was a sigh from the assembled people . ’ |
5 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
8 | He then showed us the brass plate of ‘ No. 1 ’ , still attached to the piece of cab as Selwyn Higgins cut it off . |