Example sentences of "show him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he needs a more imaginative approach to biblical meditation , show him the Ignatian method . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . ) |
| 4 | Then he could show him the dismal landscape , and drawings he had done recently , some of which he had shown the Reverend Pietersen . |
| 5 | She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again . |
| 6 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 7 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 8 | who showed him the true path : |
| 9 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 10 | Pat was showing him The True Path in stylish fashion . |
| 11 | Lee had risen and moved to where he sat at the table and was showing him the completed unicorn 's head . |
| 12 | He rose , paced about the little room , stared at the oak bureau , remembered it in his old room , in the nursery ; it had come here with Matey — he remembered her showing him the secret drawer it held , quite capacious , and unthinkingly worked the mechanism which opened it — |
| 13 | These are taught to the initiate to show him the accepted response to the vagaries of order , disorder , ambiguity , and ambivalence which lies in the complexities of social behaviour . |
| 14 | When dinner was over he liked Diana enough to ask her to show him the 115-foot-long picture gallery which then housed one of the finest private collections of art in Europe . |
| 15 | He continued to urge Canterbury 's supremacy over York , and in the general settlement of 1107 , Archbishop Gerard promised at last to show him the same obedience as archbishop as he had owed as bishop of Hereford . |