Example sentences of "had show to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately for Napoleon III , Alexander II was so involved for the next six years with the internal reconstruction of his Empire , which the Crimean War had shown to be lamentably weak , that he had no time for a ‘ forward ’ policy in Europe which might thwart French designs . |
| 2 | Renton also discussed the situation with Lord Whitelaw , the deputy leader of the party , who was one of its most widely respected elder statesmen and a person renowned for the loyalty he had shown to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 3 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 4 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 5 | Sir Roger was responding to concern expressed by BA president John Hitchin of Phoenix Bookshops that books were now available to the public at differing prices , leading to confusion in a book market which research recently commissioned by the BA had shown to be ‘ one homogeneous whole ’ . |
| 6 | Even Thomas Hearne , a Nonjuring Jacobite who himself was convinced that James III was the legitimate King , nevertheless thought that the reason why people were becoming more sympathetic to a Stuart restoration was a result of the favour George I had shown to the Whigs : He hath turned the Tories out , and filled all places with those of the Whiggish party . |