Example sentences of "present [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " 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 | An offshore worker has presented me with a detailed file containing his experiences as a safety representative . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | When she came back to him he must present her with a positive plan of action . |
| 6 | They will present him with an upbeat report claiming significant improvements in performance , with all lines beating Passengers ' Charter standards for timekeeping and reliability . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 10 | At the heart of the problem is the fact that the Government is selling off 10 different companies but presenting them as a single package . |
| 11 | When the navvies turn up for their wages on a Friday afternoon after a hard week of digging up roads , try presenting them with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry . |
| 12 | Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way . |
| 13 | The moustached man opens his palm , presenting me with an old square of foil , streaked with dry runs of smack . |
| 14 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 15 | They introduced Mr Parretti to CLBN in 1987 , presenting him as a potential investor in their company . |
| 16 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 17 | ‘ I made this for you , Anna , ’ he had said , presenting her with a small wooden doll . |
| 18 | In one such festival , her husband shows his love for her by presenting her with a new dress and himself attending to her hairdo and make up . |
| 19 | He imagined himself walking up to her and presenting her with a single red rose . |
| 20 | BLIND pensioner Dennis Coan has just celebrated six months of wedded bliss to his sweetheart Ellen by presenting her with a wooden rocking chair . |
| 21 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 22 | The writer of the previous essay plan has demonstrated advanced skills by selecting the information or facts relevant to the question and presenting it in a logical argument . |
| 23 | Manipulations can vary from simple windowing of the video , presenting it in a small area of the screen , to sophisticated visual processing to produce the spectacular special effects familiar from broadcast television . |
| 24 | We are very grateful for Dr Carey Griffiths and Vic Smith for stepping into the breach and presenting us with a two-part programme . |
| 25 | Staff will lobby the councillorsfore tomorrow 's meeting and present them with a two thousand signature petition . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 28 | And present it to a prospective developer . |
| 29 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 30 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |