Example sentences of "presented [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 2 | At 9.55 he presented himself at the door of the tall and impassive apartment-house a block back from Great Portland Street in the Marble Arch district . |
| 3 | ALISTAIR PRESENTED himself at the offices of the TLM in an unblinking trance of punctuality . |
| 4 | He responded to an imperative summons with an ill grace , and presented himself in the drawing-room of Rose 's hired house in a mood of ill-concealed annoyance . |
| 5 | Leslie had clearly avoided this mishap , for the face that presented itself at the church to the sound of other bells was unblemished — only so very much older than that of the newly-commissioned boy of the Stirling studio photograph , taken but three years before . |
| 6 | Just as there was no unique Greek idea of time , the history of the human race also presented itself to the Greeks in various forms . |
| 7 | As there was no piano in the field , Betty recorded her own music but , on the day , the only power to plug the recording machine into presented itself in the shape of an ice cream van . |
| 8 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |