• Mrs Tunstall offered to show them a video of children in care, but villagers shouted that they did not want to see it.
• Four of the group began looking at a car and the officer confronted them, saying, ‘Stop, police,’ and showing his warrant card.
• Immediately after showing them her card, Baird was asked to design an entire line.

• A stunning display of David Hockney portraits is to be shown at a new exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery next year.
• The photographs will be shown in the exhibition room of Darwen library from November 3 to November 21.
• A cross section of the photographs will be shown at an exhibition in Muckross Church at Easter time.

Synonyms

• The Trades Unions Congress was shown live on national television.
• In many respects, this is the reverse of what used to happen when films were shown on television.
• It's a dark theatre and you can't see anything, not to mention the film that's being shown on the screen.

• Unfortunately for me, the new Harry Potter film was showing on the train and, although the views were great, sadly, I couldn't help but watch the film.
• It is akin to covering one's ears, or more to point, running in and out of the theater while the film is showing.
• Like Blackboards, both films showed in Cannes and were jointly awarded the Camera d'Or for best debut feature.

• Progress up and down the five-speed box is tracked by an indicator on the dashboard showing you what gear you're in.
• He was very keen on selling me a desktop clock which would show me the time in Bangkok.
• She looked up at a clock and it showed her she only had fifteen seconds left.

• It is reproduced from a late-1800s picture postcard showing Crookhill Green and the village pond.
• The TV ad - due to be shown on Wednesday - depicts a young man thinking about how a typical night out could go.
• Each portrait is of an actor who is shown in his depiction of a protagonist in a play - a portrayal of a portrayal, as it were.

• This streaker has committed at least two arrestable offences by showing himself in public and running onto the pitch.
• Although they do not dare show themselves in public, they are all the more active on the Internet.
• I was fortunate that one day whilst I was aboard, a Sei whale showed itself and allowed us to get quite close.

• One of those who might have defended his appointment did not show at the conference.
• Tension was high even before kick-off as the appointed referee failed to show.
• She asked Amanda to throw a welcome dinner for her and the plan was for a certain gorgeous actor to come along to the party last weekend, but he didn't show.

Synonyms

• Then again, if he did spare the soldiers they would show him no mercy.
• The Bradford Royal Infirmary deserves to be proud of the way all its patients are treated and the respect shown to everyone.
• According to him, during his presidency the group had shown him scant respect.

• It struck me that the emotion showing on her face was - more than even her energetic movements - what bonded the artists.
• Here, she glanced jealously at Madeleine, and it was the first time any emotion had shown on her face.
• Creighton was matter-of-fact, no emotion showing in his gravely voice.

• She only recognized a woman was pregnant after she started showing; she had never given thought to what happened before then.
• Even though she isn't showing, her baby is due next month.
• She was still in her first trimester, so she wasn't showing yet, but she was suffering from morning sickness.

• It soon showed itself as outdated as the regime it was seeking to challenge.
• ‘But Bremer soon showed himself closely aligned to the generals, as well as to the neo-cons in Washington and their allies in Jerusalem’.
• She soon shows herself rather more sophisticated than he is.

• Here is the URL to our online training video with him explaining and showing you what you need to do.
• I think he took great delight in showing us poor city boys how it is done.
• Peter had half explained and half shown me what had happened to him over the past two years.

Synonyms

• None of the three girls said a word as the butler returned and offered to show them to their rooms.
• On arrival, I was handed a pair of pink pyjamas, which all the patients wear, and was shown to the huge dormitory.
• He shows me in, indicating where he welcomes his home-movie enthusiasts.

Synonyms

• Paul is producing comedy shows for BBC Television and has been involved in encouraging new talent.
• Indeed, his expertise and views are regularly sought both on radio and television shows.

• She said the financial health of at least 20 of Yorkshire's annual agricultural shows would be severely affected.
• There are 16 qualifying shows for this event and this should be a huge attraction both on a local and national level.
• Huge crowds came from all over Kerry to witness the largest animal show in Europe.

Synonyms

• Who's running this show, anyway?
• Obviously, I don't run the show (thank God, you're thinking), and it's a free country.

Synonyms

• As soon as he walked in all cameras focused on him and his hero pals made an exaggerated show of affection towards him.
• The show of amity presented by the two men on the front bench yesterday was just that: a show.
• She resolutely ignores me, making a theatrical show of turning away and yawning.

Synonyms

• I was thinking, ‘I'm just going to leave now and not make a show of myself'.’
• ‘Oh no,’ they tell the doctors virtuously, between bouts of vomiting, ‘I'd never do that; I wouldn't make a show of myself like that.’