Example sentences of "showed i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He showed me the scars . |
| 2 | ‘ Rats , ’ I told him , but he opened the cover on the drain outside my back door and showed me the trap to stop rats climbing up . |
| 3 | When I arrived , Small showed me the bodies of two lambs killed by foxes the previous night . |
| 4 | The landlord showed me the way to the railway station and off I went . |
| 5 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 6 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 7 | He took me back to the past and showed me the future . |
| 8 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 9 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 10 | He also showed me the passage in Captain Marryat 's Mr Midshipman Easy where Easy Sir , having invented a machine to alter the bumps on his head , tries to improve his personality ; with fatal results . |
| 11 | He showed me the label . |
| 12 | Knowing of my interests , he showed me the location , but preferred the continued existence of the species to the mild fame which would have accompanied his reporting the discovery in some scientific journal . |
| 13 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 14 | George pointed wordlessly to an immense tank of water and with amusement showed me the system for telling the quantity of the contents . |
| 15 | ‘ At the station they showed me the machine with an old mouthpiece and said I would have to blow into that . |
| 16 | He showed me the journal of the Mountain Club of South Africa , which included an article detailing the attractions of climbing in the UK . |
| 17 | He also hit out about his departure from Upton Park saying : ‘ West Ham never showed me the door . |
| 18 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 19 | He showed me the grass on which Tu'i Mala was wont to graze — Tu'i Mala being a blind Galapagos tortoise which Captain Cook presented to the Tongans in 1777 , and which died in 1966 at well over two hundred years old . |
| 20 | He showed me the stands of Norfolk pines which shaded the palace , and the view of the seafront , with a new sea-wall being put up by a Japanese firm . |
| 21 | She acknowledged this with a raised thumb , but when she showed me the assortment of charts on the bed-table pushed against the wall she gave a thumbs-down over his fluid-intake . |
| 22 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |
| 23 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 24 | He was frightened when I mentioned Fraternity & Equality Insurance , showed me the door . |
| 25 | And he just stuck the needle in his arm , and he said , ‘ Well , I think the baby 's a mongol ’ , and he showed me the door and that was it . |
| 26 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 27 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
| 28 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 29 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 30 | The author remembers seeing the internal correspondence on this matter in 1951 when J.M. Dunn showed me the file on the matter . |