Example sentences of "show [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 2 | ‘ To those who took offence at the ‘ Burn down the disco ’ line , I 'd say , please show me the black members of New Order . |
| 3 | Show me the ultimate intensifiers of sin . |
| 4 | Show me the other one first and you can find it oh no you do n't , come here |
| 5 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 6 | ‘ Show me the little something . ’ |
| 7 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 8 | We 'd best go on down and I 'll show ye the sittin' room . |
| 9 | If I show you the general norms it makes a lot more sense . |
| 10 | At the moment they 've a very good training plant for for Sizewell B , they show you the old erm magnox station , but they also the pressure water reactor station , and course also we 've got the very old one down at Bradwell if you know about , down on the Me West Merseyside , we got the old power station down there . |
| 11 | Jacob can go with you , and show you the old coach road that leads to the signpost . |
| 12 | ‘ I will show you the only book no-one has ever read a word of . ’ |
| 13 | With this drop of ink at the end of my pen , I will show you the roomy workshop of Jonathan surge , carpenter and builder in the village of Hayslope , as it appeared on the 18th of June , in the year of Our Lord , 1799 . |
| 14 | The machine has a large , touch-sensitive , digital screen that displays clear instructions — and , should you make a mistake in a procedure , it will show you the correct step , so you really ca n't go wrong . |
| 15 | When Caro made her escape after tea it was with all the usual feelings of guilt and frustration ; with her mother suggesting brightly , ‘ Just let me measure you for that new jumper before you go , Carolyn , ’ and , ‘ Did I show you the new suite we were thinking of getting , in the catalogue ? |
| 16 | I can show you the broken elastic in my tracksuit if you like . |
| 17 | Shall I show you the big needle ? |
| 18 | The tour will show you the whole manufacturing process by following the progress of a pair of shoes from start to finish around the factory . |
| 19 | I will show you the innermost secret of life . |
| 20 | If he needs a more imaginative approach to biblical meditation , show him the Ignatian method . |
| 21 | His sisters did n't tell him about their books , or show him the new ones that they were writing . |
| 22 | Past examination papers will also show him the probable lay-out of the paper that he will be expected to answer , and the amount of time likely to be allowed on each question . |
| 23 | Then he could show him the dismal landscape , and drawings he had done recently , some of which he had shown the Reverend Pietersen . |
| 24 | Consequently there are no cases in our books which show what the appropriate determinate sentence is specifically for that offence . |
| 25 | ( Note that where the errors do not immediately show what the correct word is , it 's best to write a reminder of the word beside it . |
| 26 | is there two there ? show us the other one |
| 27 | It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice . |
| 28 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 29 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |