Example sentences of "[adv] present [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't worry , I sha n't suddenly present you with a bastard grandchild . ’ |
| 2 | While Gould 's first impressions were not favourable , he was determined , as he wrote to Sir John Franklin , to keep an open mind : ‘ The heat and dust of Sydney is extremable neither does the presence of Drunkards which constantly present themselves in the streets add to the interest of this place , time and better acquaintance with the country will however perhaps enable me to speak better of it . ’ |
| 3 | Above all remember that you are selling yourself , so present yourself in a confident fashion but without boasting . |
| 4 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |
| 5 | And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places . |
| 6 | Abolitionists thus presented themselves to the world and to each other as part of a continuous progress despite the significant disjunctures in the movement 's history discussed in the last chapter ( pp.65–6 ) . |
| 7 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It depends on matters such as physical attributes and abilities of individuals , their monetary resources , the availability of mechanized means of transport and the appropriate infrastructure ; but it does not depend on the opportunities that may or may not present themselves as a result of moving : accessibility alone incorporates this feature ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just presenting you with the facts . |
| 11 | And I mean , if you think that just presenting it in the , in the class is er enough |
| 12 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ she said with feeling , dispelling a pang of guilt with the observation that she was certainly not presenting herself in a flattering light . |
| 13 | The PSI leader Bettino Craxi , whose reputation had suffered indirectly from corruption scandals in Milan [ see p. 38896 ] , had announced on June 17 that he was no longer presenting himself as a candidate for Prime Minister , but had given President Oscar Scalfaro a list of three PSI candidates — Amato , outgoing Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis , and outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Claudio Martelli . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It has been a difficult day for the Queen and tonight she 's been snubbed following the decision by the municipality of Limassol not to present her with the keys to the town . |
| 16 | The Montgomerie family generously presented it into the safe-keeping of Ayr County Council and when the Council was incorporated into Strathclyde Region , the trophy was passed to Cunninghame District Council . |
| 17 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 18 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 19 | Marx 's own celebration of capitalism is an ironic one , demonstrating its historical necessity , but always presenting it as an instrument of a doomed social formation permeated by the image of proletarian suffering . |
| 20 | He always presented himself as the redeemed bad boy , but it was a lie , she says . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He also presents us with a fairly strict unilineal theory of evolution , ( if we forget about the difference between the New and the Old Worlds ) . |
| 24 | It also presented him with a number of problems . |
| 25 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He also presented himself to the Rehabilitation Officer and has been a very great nuisance to him … |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer . |