Example sentences of "present [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 2 | They will present him with an upbeat report claiming significant improvements in performance , with all lines beating Passengers ' Charter standards for timekeeping and reliability . |
| 3 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 4 | Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way . |
| 5 | The moustached man opens his palm , presenting me with an old square of foil , streaked with dry runs of smack . |
| 6 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 7 | Twelve months earlier , when Paris had been liberated , communist members of the Resistance in France had wanted to strike before the French army and de Gaulle arrived and thus present them with an accomplished fact . |
| 8 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 9 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 10 | For Mr Till presents us with an intellectual Mozart , linking him with Rousseau and Voltaire , Goethe and Schiller . |
| 11 | Lily 's father presented me with an old pistol he had . |
| 12 | Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway . |
| 13 | The wedding was held in 1920 at Mouthlock Methodist Chapel , at South Stainmore , where Mother was the organist and , much to her surprise and delight , the members of the chapel presented them with an inscribed silver teapot . |
| 14 | Erm the the er Professor Lock was saying well you know the way you get your footloose industry is to present them with an absolute guarantee of planning permission . |
| 15 | Unless you have established for yourself what your motives are beforehand , you are unlikely to be able to present them in an attractive light to others . |
| 16 | The fact that I tried to get away from you — presented you with an unaccustomed challenge ? ’ |
| 17 | She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 18 | He thanked John Edelsten for his ten years of service as treasurer and presented him with an engraved tankard as a token of the Chamber 's gratitude . |
| 19 | To mark the occasion , the company presented him with an engraved watch and from his colleagues and friends he was given a number generous gifts , including an envelope containing £100 from the Axminster Darners , a magnum of sherry , a shirt and a birthday cake . |
| 20 | Vice-chairman Violet Durkan presented him with an inscribed gold watch on behalf of the members . |
| 21 | I intended to present him as an attractive personality — the sort of man who is very charming , hospitable , physically attractive to a lot of women . |
| 22 | ‘ Alice Muir , ’ he writes , ‘ was a homeopathist and in 1878 treated old Mrs McNeil at the Boathouse in Brodick so successfully that two years later the latter presented her with an engraved tumbler glass . ’ |
| 23 | Then on 7 May we had the visit of Mamie Magnusson , who kindly agreed at short notice to launch our Christian Aid Sale by coming to present us with an autographed copy of her enthralling history of the Woman 's Guild 's first century . |