Example sentences of "show [pers pn] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he 'll show you his eloquent brown-and-lilac bottom . |
| 2 | He had never made a secret of what he wanted from her , and pretending he enjoyed her company , pretending he wanted to laugh with her or show her his favourite places in Rome , was n't part of it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | J. J. has just shown you his one real skill — the way he can judge the mood of an audience and play it like a violin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lambert showed him his left shoulder . |
| 11 | Later on there was an incident that shows us his declining ambitions . |
| 12 | spent a long time showing me his Dark Crystal |
| 13 | Speich said , ‘ The Colonel has been showing you his human heads , yes ? ’ |
| 14 | Owen was keen to show me his new electric racing car set and let me by the arm to his room . |
| 15 | He wanted to show me his new washing machine . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
| 18 | ‘ Ask him to show you his Swiss Army knife later , ’ I laugh , feeling a little treacherous . |
| 19 | Unfortunately he was too polite to show him his own front door after half an hour . |
| 20 | 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 . |