Example sentences of "show [noun prp] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I showed Richard the letter and he handed it back without comment . |
| 2 | The Wisconsin state authorities feel that they have lost enough money on Steve Chen 's dreams — his failed Supercomputer Systems Inc received $75m in incentives from to establish its operations in Eau Claire , and they showed Chen the door when he asked for another $5m to get his fledgling SuperComputers International Inc off the ground in Eau Claire . |
| 3 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 4 | Hendrik Scholte eyed the stranger suspiciously — hotel-keepers invariably did — and was on the point of showing Vincent the door when his wife intervened . |
| 5 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 6 | His father had recently had electricity installed and wanted to show Joe the fittings and switches in each room . |