Example sentences of "show [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show Rex the trick with the beer mats , Chico . ’ |
| 2 | You can at least show Lucy the office , Silas . |
| 3 | ‘ Instead of going straight back , why not drive up into the hills and show Ashley the view ? ’ |
| 4 | She saw him take the envelope from his pocket and show Ursula the letter inside . |
| 5 | Go and show Clara the garden . " |
| 6 | And when Rabbit shows Pooh the honey , again the inference is direct : a honey pot , therefore honey . |
| 7 | More than all that , though , he showed Richard the way . |
| 8 | I showed Richard the letter and he handed it back without comment . |
| 9 | After she had a hot rum toddy in a steaming , warm tub and showed Josh the trap marks on her leg , they all sat around the wooden kitchen table to eat vegetable soup , local Stilton cheese , and a salad of walnuts and chicory , followed by gingerbread that Clare had made with Mrs Gooden 's special recipe . |
| 10 | She showed Karen the scanner , which was near the door . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Beneath a large pyramid of facts lie the great deeds of Robin Smith , DeFreitas , Tufnell , Richardson , Hooper , Richards , Ambrose , Marshall , and , perhaps most memorably , Gooch , who magnificent 154 not out at Headingley showed England the way . |
| 13 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 14 | But she only said , ‘ Have fun then , ’ and showed Oliver the lantern she had finished . |
| 15 | On the second day , Tim showed Anna the system in the warehouse . |
| 16 | He showed Gabriel the envelope containing the valentine . |
| 17 | I showed Kubrick the script of Spartacus . |
| 18 | BUDAPEST STOCK EXCHANGE SHOWS LONDON THE WAY WITH NEW SYSTEM BASED ON THREE DEC VAX SERVERS |
| 19 | The events of 1934 showed Joyce the propagandist in a different and more chilling role . |
| 20 | Here he showed Anselm the pope 's letter to the king which he had obtained after Anselm 's departure . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ Hepzibah , I 've been showing Carrie the skull . |
| 23 | Hendrik Scholte eyed the stranger suspiciously — hotel-keepers invariably did — and was on the point of showing Vincent the door when his wife intervened . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , my God , my God , ’ she said , ‘ I was showing Jack the view out there , and I leant over pointing to something and then suddenly the whole thing seemed to tilt and … ’ |
| 25 | As his nose was so white and shiny , like a light bulb , it shone through the dark sky , showing Santa the way to everybody 's houses . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She did not want to show Bridget the photograph , and was angry with herself for this uncharacteristic piece of selfishness . |
| 28 | " I want to show James the rest of the house , " Jenny said . |