show something to somebody vs show somebody something

Some examples from the web:

• Tom, I'm sorry, but we can't show something to an audience that isn't ready.
• Every piece of information Is worth something to somebody.
• Why wouldn't he say something to somebody though if he...
• He says something to somebody, then he forgets it.
• Well, I suppose it will mean something to somebody.
• Bernard I need you to show something to...
• ...that not only doesnt hurt anybody, but gives something to somebody.
• He gave my lunch to somebody else, and told me I'd have to buy something to eat.
• Now, you know that you done done something to somebody.
• You want to explain something to somebody all the time!
• Listen, Chun King, if you want to say something to me, you say it to somebody else.
• What is it when you do something to somebody and they hate it?
• My surveillance tapes show something different.
• It depends a lot on if they're doing it because they care about their art, or if they're doing it because they're trying to prove something to somebody, or to themselves.
• Unless the autopsy shows something else we can assume that he was killed by A blunt artwork.
• The doctors will let you know if the blood shows something.
• Got to show something I wrote on deadline.
• Look, tests always show something.
• So this foreign actor, his face, you know, shows something...
• As he walked out past the prosecution, he pulled apart a piece of evidence to show something I'd missed.

Some examples from the web:

• Why show somebody what you can do?
• That's why I tried so show somebody that I had some talent.
• You tell somebody something, and, well, that's it.
• She flew me out... so I could come back... and tell somebody something.
• Just... tell somebody something you're not completely certain you want them to know.
• And you must be paying somebody something for the use of the apartment.
• Do you know how humiliating it is to tell somebody something like this?
• Well, how do you tell somebody something like that?
• I can show somebody a piece of hypertext, a page which has got links, and we click on the link and bing - there'll be another hypertext page.
• Unless you were a favor, somebody owes somebody something, you're the lou.
• I feel like somebody's trying to show me something.
• What they do, is they'll show you an image of somebody... of a different racial background and then they'll show you an alternate image like right away, of something completely different.