Example sentences of "show [pron] his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Well , he showed them his real find , the Rivera murals , the white-clothed indigenos who were being liberated , the obese bosses with their cigars tumbling , the beautiful Mayan prostitute cheeking the bourgeois couple in Almeida Park . |
2 | Friend of mine , I had a beer with in the week , showed me his new car , and he said the big irritation is it does n't centrally lock , having been used to it . |
3 | During one of the hold-ups in play in the Centenary Test at Lord 's in 1980 , I met a splendid young man ( then aged about 14 ) from Yorkshire , who showed me his foolscap-size autograph book , beautifully kept , with separate pages for each country and county , adorned with photographs , magazine pictures , statistics and coloured inks . |
4 | They gave each other presents at the Hanukha-Christmas festival , and the rector showed me his latest gift , a book with the inscription ‘ To my friend the rector , from his friend , the rabbi ’ . |
5 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
6 | The first Headmaster of the Bermondsey Asylum was Joseph Watson , a nephew of Thomas Braidwood , who had shown him his personal technique of teaching deaf and dumb children . |
7 | Lambert showed him his left shoulder . |
8 | spent a long time showing me his Dark Crystal |
9 | He wanted to show me his new washing machine . |
10 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
11 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
12 | ‘ Ask him to show you his Swiss Army knife later , ’ I laugh , feeling a little treacherous . |
13 | She felt a nervous spasm in her stomach as she passed the point where Fernand had led her from the path to show her his secret refuge . |