Example sentences of "[noun] he showed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the only hint of emotion he showed . |
| 2 | Back in the car he showed Ivy the black-and-white Polaroid photograph it contained . |
| 3 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( ‘ anarchy ’ ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between the various elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption . |
| 4 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( anarchy ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption … he showed the cause to be the incapability of capitalism to maintain an equilibrium among the various elements of production . |
| 5 | In other words he showed the cause to be the incapability of capitalism to maintain an equilibrium among the various elements of production . |
| 6 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 7 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 8 | In the first scene he showed how men and boys prepared for combat and self-defence . |
| 9 | His approach , however , was more flexible than that of his father and grandfather ; except perhaps in his clash with Archbishop Stratford he showed a surer political touch , and by his readiness to make concessions on many of the issues raised by the commons he prevented the political crisis from escalating into a full-scale assault on royal government in the manner of 1310–11 . |
| 10 | The reduction in Goram 's size was matched by the slender margin for error he showed in his opening spell at Ibrox , losing only one goal in his first nine games for Rangers . |
| 11 | He was not utterly Reverend for a start : he kept bees , but he also boxed , ruggered and rowed with the same poise he showed as a raconteur . |
| 12 | I 've always admired Ben Hogan for the way he worked at the game and the determination he showed to succeed . |
| 13 | Since he was still only three it was relatively easy to exclude all these items and other common foods , such as milk and eggs , from his diet On this diet he showed a dramatic improvement . |
| 14 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 15 | At Cambridge he showed little aptitude for study and tended to be diverted by horse-racing and other forms of gambling . |
| 16 | In retirement he showed new skills as the owner of a sweets and tobacco shop in Kirkby Lonsdale . |
| 17 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 18 | That evening he showed his wife the little bronze relief . |
| 19 | And in the process he showed his steel of independence . |
| 20 | Along with people like Tolman and Crespi he showed the inadequacy of the S-R model without really replacing it with anything of use to the psychobiologist . |
| 21 | From his earliest years he showed exceptional ability in mechanics and a natural talent for engineering , which his mother in particular did much to foster . |
| 22 | But I do remember that in every room he showed me I made sure I was near to the door , the safest point of exit if he tried anything . |
| 23 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 24 | The décor of the room he showed her into was a complete contrast to that of the sitting-room , but just as garish . |
| 25 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 26 | By statistical analysis of his surveys he showed that the megaliths were set out to a common unit of measurement , the megalithic yard of 0.83 m. , not in simple circles but in circular arcs centred on right-angled triangles . |
| 27 | Then last weekend at Thruxton he showed his true potential when he finished second behind Australian Russ Ingall 's Van Diemen , and ahead of all the other Swift drivers . |
| 28 | When he went home to Basle he showed the photographs to his family and pointed out to them ‘ my very good neighbour Canon Ramsay [ sic ] from Durham , an authentic Anglo-Catholic , with strange views concerning tradition , succession , ontology and so on , but also with a very convincing twinkle in his eye … a man with whom I more often agreed than disagreed … the outstanding figure in the picture of my first ecumenical experience ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ On that terrible night he showed devotion to duty at a level not only expected by the London Fire Brigade and the public , but well beyond it . ’ |
| 30 | It was one of the ways he showed his generation . |