Example sentences of "present [pron] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after these days can she present herself to the priest for ritual atonement of her impurity : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | However , before competing again you must present yourself to the tournament doctor to have both the injury and your bandaging accepted . |
| 6 | Various sorts of logical structure , with branching and loops , will achieve this — in general we see great advantages in presenting them to the user in graphical form . |
| 7 | But in some instances research assistants may have been primarily concerned with digging out tables from published sources and presenting them to the writer to work on ; in this case the data are certainly secondary and practically tertiary . |
| 8 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 9 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 10 | Presenting it to the public was like unveiling a finished sculpture . |
| 11 | It is not intended to generate a specific code exclusively for each part but to use a code , in conjunction with the defined attributes and physical size of the part , to describe it , presenting it to the designer in a hypothesis-based reference system . |
| 12 | Stonier and Conlin point out that , " A word processor allows the student the opportunity of correcting their own work before presenting it to the teacher as a finished product " . |
| 13 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 14 | In presenting yourself to the examiner , the skill with which you save time over small routine items can be very much in your favour , and this skill comes only with practice . |
| 15 | The position of the old inn made it attractive to wealthy friends of Royalty , wishing to change their clothes before presenting themselves to the monarch at Windsor . |
| 16 | Later in life this early thrill ( a combination of pleasure and shock ) is reproduced in voyeuristic activities as well as in its converse : narcissism and exhibitionism — presenting oneself to the gaze of the self and others . |
| 17 | Disguise is a matter of presenting oneself to the person deceived in an unexpected context . |
| 18 | We have identified some areas of weakness , and others in which we believe that the investment of resources will substantially improve the way in which we present ourselves to the public , and provide services which we are currently unable to undertake . |
| 19 | I have decided to realise 20% of that amount or say £120,000 which will purchase £150,000 of the new War Loan , and present it to the Government for cancellation . |
| 20 | Even allowing Finnis his large claim that private property is a general requirement of justice , it must be evident that a remarkably wide range of possible determinations present themselves to the legislator . |
| 21 | It presents itself to the citizen in many different guises : the payment of VAT on a chocolate bar , a rule against parking on a yellow line , a maternity allowance . |
| 22 | The final contents of the budget are only revealed to the Cabinet the day before the Chancellor presents it to the House of Commons , when it is too late for any major changes . |
| 23 | It is therefore Christ who presents us to the Father , and our salvation derives from him . |
| 24 | Around the same time , he took his mother 's many dancing and music medals , together with his father 's accordion , and presented them to the pawnbroker . |
| 25 | He also gathered together nearly all the drawings formerly in his father 's collection in order to present them to the public . |
| 26 | They hope to be allowed to present them to the couple today . |
| 27 | We need to retain the choice to present ourselves to the world as ‘ not-beautiful ’ , to prevent suffocation and keep up a satisfactory interaction with people and tasks that we encounter . |
| 28 | He also presented himself to the Rehabilitation Officer and has been a very great nuisance to him … |
| 29 | In the run-up to the elections Fujimori sought to present himself to the public as the defender of democracy , claiming that opposition politicians had been behind a coup attempt on Nov. 13 aimed at preventing the CCD elections from taking place and restoring the 1979 Constitution . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was then , rather than in 1290 as often supposed , that the priory presented him to the rectory of North Marston ( Buckinghamshire ) , where his cult was to develop , and which he held until his death . |