Example sentences of "present [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | You should present them with a sense of commitment . |
| 3 | It 's a constant challenge that I 'm centuries away from even thinking about mastering , but it 's definitely presented me with a universe of what 's out there left to do . |
| 4 | An offshore worker has presented me with a detailed file containing his experiences as a safety representative . |
| 5 | You have presented me with the key , and I now perceive all of its hitherto latent beauties . ’ |
| 6 | I had expected , perhaps because the image she had presented me with the week before had been more domestic , someone less ambiguous and far less assured . |
| 7 | I 've presented you with a lot of information in this article , so remember to take your time and try to practise every day . |
| 8 | In effect , we have presented you with a prime site , and it 's up to you to decide what you want to do with it . |
| 9 | Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’ |
| 10 | Do n't worry , I sha n't suddenly present you with a bastard grandchild . ’ |
| 11 | Come and see me in the studio any time after that and I 'll present you with a couple of bottles of duty-free in compensation for any hassle . |
| 12 | Lady Miriam 's three-year-old granddaughter , Franchesca Hubbard , will present her with a posy of flowers when she arrives . |
| 13 | When she came back to him he must present her with a positive plan of action . |
| 14 | At this point some vainglorious politician would step forward and present him with a book such as this one . |
| 15 | They will present him with an upbeat report claiming significant improvements in performance , with all lines beating Passengers ' Charter standards for timekeeping and reliability . |
| 16 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 17 | Anand made the announcement after student leaders had presented him with a petition calling for the lifting of martial law . |
| 18 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 19 | He turned to a small cabinet mounted high on the kitchen wall , and in a moment had presented her with a glass of water and two white capsules that she swallowed obediently and not without relief . |
| 20 | Now all her hard work has been recognised by West Lothian Arts who have presented her with an Arts Individual Award . |
| 21 | The great bulk of Liberal and Marxist writing about war had presented it as an activity which no radical could support and which all must fight to prevent . |
| 22 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 23 | His first major poetry collection since 1986 ; he will present it at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 24 | But the disparity lies less in tone than in technique : like rather a lot of modern movies , Bye Bye Blues lacks the capacity to formulate its material rather than just present it to the audience and leave them to do the rest . |
| 25 | I should be grateful for a prompt reply so that I can present it to the Parish Council at their next meeting on 27th August . |
| 26 | However , it follows at once that they do not strictly present us with a distinct adjective position , but just a special case of the predicative adjective already discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 27 | A is indeed more precise , but only in a trivial sense , for in B does present us with the same referent as in A. If , on the other hand , the lines changed places , so that we read : |
| 28 | In fact , I would have hoped that an European interpretation might have presented us with a radically different perspective , something to argue about . |
| 29 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 30 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |