Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] presented to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Court dress was the particular form of costume worn by ladies when they were presented to the monarch . |
| 2 | It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust . |
| 3 | The goblet was of unknown material , unusual colour and of unfamiliar shape : it was presented to the King . |
| 4 | But while the Section d'Or represented the high point of the Cubist movement as it was presented to the public , and while the influence of Cubism daily became more powerful and widespread , many painters who had been Cubist , or had moved in Cubist circles , were already abandoning the style or using certain aspects of it as points of departure for developing completely new art forms . |
| 5 | He was presented to the Governor , Lord Plunkett , who presented him with a portrait of himself . |
| 6 | When he was presented to the church of Northampton , Robert Grosseteste , the saintly Bishop of Lincoln , refused to admit him . |
| 7 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 8 | In 1910 he was presented to the living of Thaxted in Essex . |
| 9 | He was evidently a magister by 1273 ( of Oxford University , according to the fifteenth-century antiquarian William Worcester , q.v. ) , when he was presented to the rectory of Steppingley ( Bedfordshire ) by Dunstable Priory . |
| 10 | In 1580 he was presented to the living of Eastwell near Ashford by Nicholas St Leger , a staunchly Protestant gentleman who had denounced Mary Queen of Scots in Parliament as that ‘ monstrous huge dragon and mass of the earth ’ , and who had married the widow of Sir Thomas Finch [ q.v. ] , whose manor-house dominated this tiny parish of fifteen households and seventy-two communicants . |