Example sentences of "present [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You have presented me with the key , and I now perceive all of its hitherto latent beauties . ’
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Alternatively , the adventurers could stumble across a group encamped somewhere in the hills , presenting them with the choice of trying to sneak around unobserved , or mounting a surprise attack .
8 Back at Stuart Street I cemented my new-found friendship with Doogie and Miranda by presenting them with the leg of lamb .
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 He goes on to say ‘ In presenting us with the award for Lafayette , the judges believe that the new range has outstanding sales potential .
15 It would also threaten the stability of the polity itself , and Gloucester 's public pronouncements in this period consistently present him as the defender of his brother 's achievements against the machinations of the Woodvilles .
16 It would also threaten the stability of the polity itself , and Gloucester 's public pronouncements in this period consistently present him as the defender of his brother 's achievements against the machinations of the Woodvilles .
17 Then awaken him gently and present him with the bill .
18 Mr Kinnock has learnt that it is more effective to mock the Prime Minister as an anachronism in a brave new world than snarl the word ‘ Thatcherism ’ and present her as the personification of all evil .
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 If I turn from the P and L Account to the operating cash flow , er you 've got the F R S One cash flow in your er in your pack in the preliminary announcement obviously , but we er do n't find it terribly helpful , it 's not the way we manage the business so I thought you erm would forgive us if we present it in the way we think it 's a little easier to follow .
21 She describes her readers ' profession as ‘ dynamic and exciting ’ , all of which presents her with the problem of writing content erudite yet lively , weighty but not pompous .
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 Several of the backstage staff , including Annie and Jennifer , had bought a space in the Chassidic Hospital in Jerusalem in my Dad 's name and presented me with the certificate .
25 Moments before the Prime Minister presented me with the trophy , I was asked if I would pose in the sea for a tourism promotion picture .
26 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 .
27 The team were then treated to a meal and the mill manager presented them with the Challenge Trophy [ through gritted teeth ] and before the lads could get the lens caps off their cameras , they took it back , saying that the cup would stay at Rank 's but Rentokil 's name would be put on .
28 From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments .
29 He also gathered together nearly all the drawings formerly in his father 's collection in order to present them to the public .
30 They hope to be allowed to present them to the couple today .
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