Example sentences of "[modal v] show [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's show you a typical penguin day and you can tell us when we 're wasting energy |
| 2 | We 'd best go on down and I 'll show ye the sittin' room . |
| 3 | When he speaks an aside to us , in his own person , it is in verse : He continues in their prose , but when he wants to express his respect for them and offer his services , he moves up to verse : ‘ I 'll show thee the best springs ; I 'll pluck thee berries ; /I 'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough ’ ( 160f . ) . |
| 4 | ‘ It 'll show us the best side of each other . ’ |
| 5 | You 'll be more than welcome — ugly and depressing though it is — we 'll show you a good time — we mean that , Hans — we really do . ’ |
| 6 | I said no .. , so he said er , I 'll show you a quick video he said , and he showed me this video , part in Manchester and part in Peterborough two old girls got these crash helmets on |
| 7 | And er I 'll show you a little booklet I 've got somewhere on that about the nation about his bungalow . |
| 8 | Show me a professional , possum , and I 'll show you a pompous type of person . |
| 9 | ‘ If you care to walk along there , ’ I suggested , deadpan , ‘ I 'll show you an interesting fact about that hole . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll show you the quickest way , ’ offered Carol . |
| 11 | Behold , I could show him a new thing . |
| 12 | But Huxley condemned Vestiges as meaningless verbiage and was unwilling to support the basic idea of evolution unless someone could show him a natural mechanism to explain how the process could work . |
| 13 | Then he could show him the dismal landscape , and drawings he had done recently , some of which he had shown the Reverend Pietersen . |
| 14 | ‘ But I could show you a nicer place to stroll , show you the town . |
| 15 | If there were a time clock for murder , it would show one every twenty-six minutes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child . |
| 19 | ‘ I will show you the only book no-one has ever read a word of . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I will show you the innermost secret of life . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I can show you the broken elastic in my tracksuit if you like . |
| 25 | But I can show you , I can show you the eighth floor and show you where the gang where is the eighth floor ? |
| 26 | ‘ I can show you an excellent view of the town , ’ he pressed , his smile dipping for all the world as if he would take it as a personal tragedy if she refused . |